Isaiah 59:11

WEB

¹¹We all roar like bears and moan sadly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.

KJV

¹¹We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

BSB

¹¹We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.

FBV

¹¹All of us growl like bears and coo like doves as we wait for justice to be done, but it never happens; we wait for salvation, but never receive it.

Extra References

Isaiah 38:14

¹⁴I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”

Ezekiel 7:16

¹⁶But of those who escape, they will escape and will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, everyone in his iniquity.

Psalms 32:3-4

³When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. ⁴For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.

Psalms 85:9

⁹Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.

Jeremiah 9:1

¹Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a spring of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

Psalms 38:8

⁸I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.

Isaiah 51:20

²⁰Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the LORD’s wrath, the rebuke of your God.

Isaiah 59:9

⁹Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness doesn’t overtake us. We look for light, but see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

Job 30:28-29

²⁸I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help. ²⁹I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.

Psalms 119:155

¹⁵⁵Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don’t seek your statutes.