Isaiah 59:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

Isaiah 59:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 5:30
And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
Job 30:26
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Jeremiah 8:15
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
Micah 1:12
For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.

Topics

Conscience Depravity of Man Esaias Guilt Isaiah Popular Sins Rebellion Sin

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-15)

The scope of this paragraph is the same with that of the last, to show that sin is the great mischief-maker; as it is that which keeps good things from us, so it is that which brings evil things upon us. But as there it is spoken by the prophet, in God’s name, to the people, for their conviction and humiliation, and that God might be justified when he speaks and clear when he judges, so here it se…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. judgment far--retribution in kind because they had shown “no judgment in their goings” (Is 59:8). “The vindication of our just rights by God is withheld by Him from us.” us--In Is 59:8 and previous verses, it was “they,” the third person; here, “us ... we,” the first person. The nation here speaks: God thus making them out of their own mouth condemn themselves; just as He by His prophet had con…