Isaiah 59:9 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

⁹ Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Therefore are justice and right far from us, and righteousness and salvation do not overtake us. We expectantly wait for light, but [only] see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity and gloom.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

Common English Bible

⁹ Because of all this, justice is far from us, and righteousness beyond our reach. We expect light, and there is darkness; we await a gleam of light, but walk about in gloom.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Because of this, judgment is far from us, and justice will not take hold of us. We waited for light, and behold, darkness; we waited for brightness, and we walked in darkness.

Isaiah 59:9 Tagairtí Cros

Job 19:8

He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

Job 30:26

When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.

Psalm 82:5

They don't know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.

Isaiah 5:30

They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

Isaiah 59:11

We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

Isaiah 59:14

Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can't enter.

Isaiah 59:8

The way of shalom they don't know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know shalom.

Isaiah 8:21

They will pass through it, sore distressed and hungry; and it will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,

Isaiah 8:22

and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will will be driven into thick darkness.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

Jeremiah 14:19

Have you utterly rejected Yehudah? has your soul loathed Tziyon? why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for shalom, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!

Jeremiah 8:15

We looked for shalom, but no good came; [and] for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!

Lamentations 3:2

He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

Lamentations 4:14

They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men can't touch their garments.

Amos 8:9

It will happen in that day,* says the Lord GOD, *that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day.

Micah 1:12

For the inhabitant of Marot waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from the LORD to the gate of Yerushalayim.

Habakkuk 1:13

You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

1 Thessalonians 5:3

For when they are saying, *Peace and safety,* then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.