Therefore has judgment departed from them, and righteousness shall not overtake them: while they waited for light, darkness came upon them; while they waited for brightness, they walked in perplexity.
LXX2012
Isaiah 59:9
Therefore has judgment departed from them, and righteousness shall not overtake them: while they waited for light, darkness came upon them; while they waited for brightness, they walked in perplexity.
Parallel Translations
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.
Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness doesn’t overtake us. We look for light, but see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
Cross References
Isaiah 5:30Job 30:261 Thessalonians 5:3Micah 1:12Jeremiah 14:19Jeremiah 8:15Amos 5:18–20Lamentations 5:16–17Habakkuk 1:13
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