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 of our head fell: wo! now to us, for we sinned.
Habakkuk 1:13
Being pure of eyes from beholding evil, and wilt not be able to look upon labor: wherefore wilt thou look upon the transgressors? wilt thou be silent in the unjust swallowing the just above him?
We wait
Isaiah 5:30
And they shall groan against them in that day as the groaning of the sea: and they looked to the land and, behold, straitened darkness, and the light darkened in its clouds.
Job 30:26
For I hoped for good and evil will come: and I shall wait for light and darkness will come.
Jeremiah 8:15
Hoping for peace, and no good; for a time of healing, and behold, terror.
Jeremiah 14:19
Rejecting, didst thou reject Judah? if thy soul abhorred in Zion? wherefore didst thou smite us, and no healing to us? waiting for peace, and no good; and for a time of healing, and behold terror.
Amos 5:18
Wo! to you longing for the day of Jehovah; for what this to you? The day of Jehovah this is darkness and not light
Micah 1:12
For she dwelling in bitterness was anxious for good: but evil came down from Jehovah to the gate of Jerusalem.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they say, Peace and security; then sudden ruin is upon them, as anguish in her with child; and they may not escape.
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Proverbs 4:19
The way of the unjust as darkness: they shall not know in what they shall stumble.