Isaiah 59:9 - Exposition

Therefore — i.e. on account of these sins— is judgment far from us ; i.e. "does God refrain from judging our enemies." Neither doth justice— i.e. the righting of the wrongs which we suffer at the hands of the heathen—overtake us. We are left by God unavenged, and our enemies are left unpunished on account of our many transgressions. We wait for light. We look for a bright dawn to succeed the night of our trouble; but we wait in vain—the obscurity continues.