Charles Ellicott Commentary Isaiah 59:14

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

Truth is fallen in the street —that is, the broad open place, or agora, of the city. The words point naturally to Jerusalem. If they refer to Babylon, we must assume, unless we deal with the language as altogether figurative, that the exiles had a quarter of their own, in which they had an agora for business and judicial proceedings.