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
Your eyes [are] too pure to see evil, and you are not able to look at wrongdoing. Why do you look at the treacherous? [Why] are you silent when the wicked swallows up [someone] more righteous than him?
We wait
Isaiah 5:30
And he will roar over him on that day like [the] roaring of [the] sea, and [if] one looks to the land, look! Darkness! Distress! And [the] light grows dark with its clouds.
Job 30:26
Indeed, I hoped for good, but evil came, and I waited for light, but darkness came.
Jeremiah 8:15
[We] hope for peace, but there is no good, for a time of healing, but there is terror.
Jeremiah 14:19
Have you completely rejected Judah? Or has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us so that there is no healing for us? We hope for peace, but there is no good, and for a time of healing, but look, there is terror.
Amos 5:18
Alas, those who desire the day of Yahweh, why [is] this for you the day of Yahweh? It [will be] darkness and not light!
Micah 1:12
For the inhabitants of Maroth writhed for good, because disaster has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
Whenever they say "Peace and security," then sudden destruction will overtake them like the birth pains of {a pregnant woman}, and they will not possibly escape.
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Proverbs 4:19
The way of the wicked ones [is] like deep darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.