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Iniquities Make Blind and Helpless
v. 9. Therefore is judgment far from us, the Jews themselves complaining that the sentence of deliverance is not spoken in their behalf, neither doth justice, deliverance and salvation, overtake us, they cannot reach them, cannot help them; we wait for light, for good fortune and happiness, but behold obscurity, misfortune and destruction; for brightness, but we walk in darkness, in the very midst of disaster.
v. 10. We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as If we had no eyes, seeking for a way out of the dungeon of misery; we stumble at noonday as in the night, increasing their misery and sorrow in their fruitless groping for light; we are in desolate places as dead men, as dead people in the midst of healthy and strong men. While the true believers enjoy life in the fellowship with Jehovah, the hypocrites and wicked people are on their way to eternal destruction.
v. 11. We roar all like bears, moaning and growling for food, and mourn sore like doves, with plaintive calls; we look for judgment, for the sentence of deliverance, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us, by their own fault.
v. 12. For our transgressions are multiplied before Thee, in their breaches of the covenant faithfulness, and our sins testify against us, as witnesses of their guilt; for our transgressions, by which they denied the covenant faithfulness, are with us, are in evidence before the eyes of all men; and as for our iniquities, we know them, bound to acknowledge and confess them;
v. 13. in transgressing, unfaithful to the covenant, and lying against the Lord, trying to cover their perfidy with hypocrisy, and departing away from our God, in a denial of the covenant Lord, speaking oppression and revolt, in rebellion against Jehovah, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood, untrue and destructive speeches, which encourage rebellion.
v. 14. And judgment, the deliverance which the Lord would otherwise grant, is turned away backward, and justice, the sentence of deliverance, standeth afar off, so that salvation will not come to these reprobates; for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter, both faithfulness and probity being out of the question, not being permitted to testify openly.
v. 15. a. Yea, truth faileth, faithfulness is forsaken; and he that departeth from evil, taking an open stand against perfidy and wickedness, maketh himself a prey, becomes the object of violence on every side. This is the experience which all believers may have at one time or another, that their witnessing for the truth brings upon them the hatred of the wicked.