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Isaiah 59:9-11
International Standard Version
Isaiah 59:9-11
International Standard Version
A Commitment to Wait on God
9 “So justice is far from us,
and righteousness does not reach us.
We wait for light, but look—there is darkness;
we wait for brightness, but we walk in deep darkness.[a]
10 Let’s grope[b] along the wall like the blind;
let us grope like those who have no eyes.
We stumble at midday as if it were twilight,
in desolate places[c] like dead people.
11 We all growl like bears;
we[d] sigh mournfully like doves.
We look for justice, but there is none,
and[e] for deliverance, but it’s far from us.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 59:9 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads darknesses
- Isaiah 59:10 So 1QIsaa; MT reads We grope LXX reads They grope
- Isaiah 59:10 Or among vigorous people
- Isaiah 59:11 So 1QIsaa; MT reads and we
- Isaiah 59:11 So 1QIsaa; Not in MT LXX
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