Isaiah 59:14

The confession, following the same order as the indictment in Isaiah 59:3, proceeds from personal sins to public injustice.

judgmentand justice( righteousness) are not the divine vindication of Israel's right (as in Isaiah 59:9), but the fundamental civic virtues. These, by a bold personification, are conceived as eager to take their rightful place in the administration of justice, but as kept at a distance by the prevailing social corruption. For truth (the essential basis of righteousness) stumbleth in the broad place, and uprightness (R.V.) cannot enter. The "broad place" is probably the open space at the city gate where cases were decided by the judges (Jeremiah 5:1 &c.).