"Courts of justice are corrupt. Rulers are actuated by desire for gain and love of sensual pleasure. Intemperance has beclouded the faculties of many so that Satan has almost complete control of them. Jurists are perverted, bribed, deluded. Drunkenness and revelry, passion, envy, dishonesty of every sort, are represented among those who administer the laws. “Justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.” Isaiah 59:14 . GC 586.1"
"And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter."
Ellen White directly references Isaiah 59:14 in this passage.
"enjoined; and as the only way to free themselves from a duty which they are unwilling to perform, many popular teachers declare that the law of God is no longer binding. Thus they cast away the law and the Sabbath together. As the work of Sabbath reform extends, this rejection of the divine law to avoid the claims of the fourth commandment will become well-nigh universal. The teachings of religious leaders have opened the door to infidelity, to spiritualism, and to contempt for God's holy law; and upon these leaders rests a fearful responsibility for the iniquity that exists in the Christian world. GC 586.2"
"But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men."
Both passages address the issue of religious leaders teaching doctrines that contradict God's law. Matthew 15:9 speaks of vain worship through human commandments, while EGW describes leaders rejecting God's law to avoid the Sabbath commandment.