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 been taken from our head. Sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.
Habakkuk 1:13
Your eyes are too pure to look at evil. You cannot look at perversity. Why do you look at treacherous persons and not act? Why do you keep quiet when the wicked destroy the man who is more righteous?
We wait
Isaiah 5:30
In that day they will roar over their prey as the sea roars. If they look at the land, they will see only darkness and distress. Thick clouds will darken even the light.
Job 30:26
When I expected good evil came. When I waited for light darkness came.
Jeremiah 8:15
We waited for peace, but no good came. We waited for a time of healing, but all we got was terror!
Jeremiah 14:19
Have you completely rejected Judah? Do you despise Zion? Why have you struck us so hard that we cannot heal? We hope for peace, but no good comes from it. We hope for a time of healing, but there's only terror.
Amos 5:18
Woe to you who desire the day of Jehovah! What will the day of Jehovah mean to you? It is darkness, and not light.
Micah 1:12
The inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because bad came down from Jehovah to the gate of Jerusalem.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
When they say, Peace and security! then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come to a pregnant woman. They will not escape.
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Proverbs 4:19
The way of the wicked is like darkness. They do not know what makes them stumble.