Isaiah 59:11 “We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but…”

Isaiah 59:11

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

We 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.

World English Bible

We 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.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

We roare all like beares, and mourne like dooues: wee looke for equitie, but there is none: for health, but it is farre from vs.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

We make a noise as bears — all of us, And as doves we coo sorely; We wait for judgment, and there is none, For salvation — it hath been far from us.

Bible in Basic English

We make noises of grief, like bears, and sad sounds like doves: we are looking for our right, but it is not there; for salvation, but it is far from us.

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Cross references

“roar”

Isaiah 51:20 Psalm 38:8 Hosea 7:14 Psalm 32:3 Psalm 32:4

Isaiah 51:20 · BSB

Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the wrath of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.

Psalm 38:8 · BSB

I am numb and badly crushed; I groan in anguish of heart.

Hosea 7:14 · BSB

They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.

Psalm 32:3 · BSB

When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.

Psalm 32:4 · BSB

For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my strength was drained as in the summer heat. Selah

“mourn”

Isaiah 38:14 Ezekiel 7:16 Jeremiah 8:15 Jeremiah 9:1 Job 30:28 Job 30:29

Isaiah 38:14 · BSB

I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”

Ezekiel 7:16 · BSB

The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity.

Jeremiah 8:15 · BSB

We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

Jeremiah 9:1 · BSB

Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.

Job 30:28 · BSB

I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.

Job 30:29 · BSB

I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.

“for salvation”

Psalm 85:9 Psalm 119:155

Psalm 85:9 · BSB

Surely His salvation is near to those who fear Him, that His glory may dwell in our land.

Psalm 119:155 · BSB

Salvation is far from the wicked because they do not seek Your statutes.

Also

Isaiah 59:9

Isaiah 59:9 · BSB

Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.

12For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. Our transgressions are indeed with us, and we know our iniquities:

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