Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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.
Is judgment
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Bible References
Is judgment
Lamentations 5:16
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us! For we have sinned.
Habakkuk 1:13
Thou who are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and who cannot look on perverseness, why do thou look upon those who deal treacherously, and hold thy peace when the wicked man swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,
We wait
Isaiah 5:30
And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. And if [a man] looks to the land, behold, darkness [and] distress, and the light is darkened in the clouds of it.
Job 30:26
When I looked for good, then evil came. And when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Jeremiah 8:15
We looked for peace, but no good came, for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
Jeremiah 14:19
Have thou utterly rejected Judah? Has thy soul loathed Zion? Why have thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came, and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
Amos 5:18
Woe to you who desire the day of LORD! Why would ye have the day of LORD? It is darkness, and not light.
Micah 1:12
For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from LORD to the gate of Jerusalem.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction approaches them, as the woman having birth pangs in her womb, and they will, no, not escape.
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Proverbs 4:19
The way of the wicked is as darkness. They know not at what they stumble.