Isaiah 59:10-11

10, 11. We grope for the wall Like the blind we feel our way. And the same or similar course of figures continues to Isaiah 59:15, each illustrating some comprehensive phase in this confession which the people are openly and freely making, but which, in chap. lviii, it was boasted there was no need to make. Self-righteousness was uppermost in that chapter. Now it is confessed, “Moral blindness and darkness is our lot. Light and peace belong to the lot of the good, but to us it is the same as if we were dead.” In Isaiah 59:11 the figure is changed to indicate still the same bad state of the heart. With the insolence of a bear we growl; with hopeless sadness we moan like the turtledove.

For judgment That is, for vindication, (see Isaiah 59:9,) for apology for our condition, but in vain.

For salvation For deliverance from this state; but it fails to appear.