Isaiah 59:9

The Scriptures 1998

Therefore right-ruling has been far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We look for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in thick darkness!

Cross References

Job 19:8

He has fenced up my way, and I pass not over. And He has placed darkness in my paths.

Job 30:26

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

Psalm 82:5

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

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wrong is like darkness; They do not know at what they stumble.

Isaiah 5:30

And in that day they shall growl over it as with the growling of the sea. And one shall look at the earth, and see, darkness and distress! And light shall be darkened by the clouds.

Isaiah 59:11

All of us growl like bears, and moan sadly like doves. We look for right-ruling, but there is none; for deliverance, but it is far from us.

Isaiah 59:14

And right-ruling is driven back, and righteousness stands far off. For truth has fallen in the street, and right is unable to enter.

Isaiah 59:8

The way of peace they have not known, and there is no right-ruling in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves, whoever treads in them shall not know peace.

Isaiah 8:21

And they shall pass through it hard pressed and hungry. And it shall be, when they are hungry, that they shall be wroth and curse their sovereign and their Elohim, looking upward.

Isaiah 8:22

And they shall look to the earth and see distress and darkness, gloom of hard times, and be driven into thick darkness.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give esteem to יהוה  your Elohim before He brings 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, makes it gross darkness.

Jeremiah 14:19

Have You completely rejected Yehuḏ

Jeremiah 8:15

We looked for peace, but there was no good; and for a time of healing, but see – fear!

Lamentations 3:2

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

Lamentations 4:14

They staggered, blind, in the streets; They have defiled themselves with blood, So that no one was able to touch their garments.

Amos 8:9

“And it shall be in that day,” declares the Master יהוה, “that I shall cause the sun to go down at noon, and shall darken the earth on a day of brightness,

Micah 1:12

Though the inhabitants of Maroth waited for good, yet evil came down from יהוה  to the gate of Yerushalayim.

Habakkuk 1:13

You, whose eyes are too clean to see evil, You are not able to look on wrong. Why do You look on those who act treacherously – keep silent when the wrong devours one more righteous than he?

1 Thessalonians 5:3

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