Isaiah 59:9

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

Lamentations 5:16

Habakkuk 1:13

We wait

1 Thessalonians 5:3

General references

Proverbs 4:19

Bible References

Is judgment

The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.

Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?

We wait

And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.

For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.

We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.

Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.

Sorrow to you who are looking for the day of the Lord! what is the day of the Lord to you? it is dark and not light.

For the one living in Maroth is waiting for good: for evil has come down from the Lord to the doorways of Jerusalem.

When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.

General references

The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.