14Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can't enter.


In Context

11 We roar all like bears, and moan bitterly like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

12 For 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:

13 transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

14 Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can't enter.

15 Yes, 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.

16 He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his own arm brought salvation to him; and his righteousness, it upheld him.

Isaiah 59:14 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

59:14And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

59:14So justice is driven back, and righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled in the streets, honesty cannot enter.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

59:14And judgment is turned away backward, and justice hath stood far off: because truth bath fallen down in the street, and equity could not come in.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

59:14And justice is turned away backward, and righteousness standeth afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

59:14And judgment is turned away backward, and righteousness standeth afar off; for truth stumbleth in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

59:14And judgment is turned away backward, and righteousness standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

59:14And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

59:14And removed backward is judgment, And righteousness afar off standeth, For truth hath been feeble in the street, And straightforwardness is not able to enter,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

59:14And judgment is turned away backward, and justice stands afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.