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Isaiah 59:10-15

King James Version (KJV)

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Scripture focus

10. We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if [we had] no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; [we are] in desolate places as dead [men]. 11. We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but [there is] none; for salvation, [but] it is far off from us. 12. For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions [are] with us; and [as for] our iniquities, we know them; 13. In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. 14. And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. 15. Yea, truth faileth; and he [that] departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw [it], and it displeased him that [there was] no judgment.

Isaiah 59:10-15 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Isaiah 59:10

Theological / Devotional

We grope. Verses 10-15 present a striking description of the results of transgression. When men refuse to walk in the way of right and justice God permits blindness to come upon them (Isa. 6:10; cf. Rom. 11:25). He allows them to walk in pathways of their own devising, pathways that inevitably lead into distress and perplexity. Men find themselves shut in, as it were, by walls of trouble. Blindly and in vain they grope about, seeking a way of escape. This was the very outcome Moses had foretold. (Deut. 28:20, 29).

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