Isaiah 59:9
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.
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- 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.
- Jeremiah 8:15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!