Isaiah 59:9

New King James Version

Therefore justice is far from us, Nor does righteousness overtake us; We look for light, but there is darkness! For brightness, but we walk in blackness!

Cross References

Isaiah 5:30

In that day they will roar against them Like the roaring of the sea. And if one looks to the land, Behold, darkness and sorrow; And the light is darkened by the clouds.

Job 30:26

But when I looked for good, evil came to me; And when I waited for light, then came darkness.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.

Habakkuk 1:13

You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, And cannot look on wickedness. Why do You look on those who deal treacherously, And hold Your tongue when the wicked devours A person more righteous than he?

Micah 1:12

For the inhabitant of Maroth pined for good, But disaster came down from the Lord To the gate of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 14:19

Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You stricken us so that there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but there was no good; And for the time of healing, and there was trouble.

Jeremiah 8:15

“We looked for peace, but no good came; And for a time of health, and there was trouble!

Psalm 82:5

They do not know, nor do they understand; They walk about in darkness; All the foundations of the earth are unstable.

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wicked is like darkness; They do not know what makes them stumble.

Isaiah 8:21

They will pass through it hard-pressed and hungry; and it shall happen, when they are hungry, that they will be enraged and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

Isaiah 8:22

Then they will look to the earth, and see trouble and darkness, gloom of anguish; and they will be driven into darkness.

Isaiah 59:8

The way of peace they have not known, And there is no justice in their ways; They have made themselves crooked paths; Whoever takes that way shall not know peace.

Isaiah 59:11

We all growl like bears, And moan sadly like doves; We look for justice, but there is none; For salvation, but it is far from us.

Isaiah 59:14

Justice is turned back, And righteousness stands afar off; For truth is fallen in the street, And equity cannot enter.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God Before He causes darkness, And before your feet stumble On the dark mountains, And while you are looking for light, He turns it into the shadow of death And makes it dense darkness.

Lamentations 3:2

He has led me and made me walk In darkness and not in light.

Lamentations 4:14

They wandered blind in the streets; They have defiled themselves with blood, So that no one would touch their garments.

Amos 8:9

“And it shall come to pass in that day,” says the Lord God, “That I will make the sun go down at noon, And I will darken the earth in broad daylight;

Job 19:8

He has fenced up my way, so that I cannot pass; And He has set darkness in my paths.