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Isaiah 59:14

World English Bible

Justice is turned away backward,
and righteousness stands far away;
for truth has fallen in the street,
and uprightness can’t enter.

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Isaiah 59:14 in other translations

And justice is turned away backward, and righteousness standeth afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.

Isaiah 59:14 · American Standard Version

Isaiah 59:14 in context

  1. 12For our transgressions are multiplied before you,
    and our sins testify against us;
    for our transgressions are with us,
    and as for our iniquities, we know them:
  2. 13transgressing and denying Yahweh,
    and turning away from following our God,
    speaking oppression and revolt,
    conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
  3. 14Justice is turned away backward,
    and righteousness stands far away;
    for truth has fallen in the street,
    and uprightness can’t enter.
  4. 15Yes, truth is lacking;
    and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.
    Yahweh saw it,
    and it displeased him that there was no justice.
  5. 16He saw that there was no man,
    and wondered that there was no intercessor.
    Therefore his own arm brought salvation to him;
    and his righteousness sustained him.