Isaiah 59:11

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

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  • Isa 38:14 : 14 Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail [with looking] upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.
  • Ezek 7:16 : 16 But those of them that escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one in his iniquity.
  • Hos 7:14 : 14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, but they howl upon their beds: they assemble themselves for grain and new wine; they rebel against me.
  • Isa 51:20 : 20 Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of Jehovah, the rebuke of thy God.
  • Isa 59:9 : 9 Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
  • Jer 8:15 : 15 We looked for peace, but no good came; [and] for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!
  • Jer 9:1 : 1 Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
  • Job 30:28-29 : 28 I go mourning without the sun: I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help. 29 I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.
  • Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long. 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed [as] with the drought of summer. {{Selah
  • Ps 38:8 : 8 I am faint and sore bruised: I have groaned by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
  • Ps 85:9 : 9 Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him, That glory may dwell in our land.
  • Ps 119:155 : 155 Salvation is far from the wicked; For they seek not thy statutes.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 59:9-10
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    81%

    9Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

    10We grope for the wall like the blind; yea, we grope as they that have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among them that are lusty we are as dead men.

  • Isa 59:12
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    12For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:

  • Jer 14:19
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    19Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!

  • Jer 8:15
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    15We looked for peace, but no good came; [and] for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!

  • Lam 4:17-19
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    17Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

    18They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

    19Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens: They chased us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

  • Jer 9:18-19
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    18and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.

    19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.

  • Isa 64:6-7
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    6For we are all become as one that is unclean, and all our righteousnesses are as a polluted garment: and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

    7And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us by means of our iniquities.

  • Jer 8:19-20
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    73%

    19Behold, the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a land that is very far off: Is not Jehovah in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with foreign vanities?

    20The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

  • Isa 26:17-18
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    73%

    17Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain and crieth out in her pangs; so we have been before thee, O Jehovah.

    18We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

  • Lam 5:5
    72%

    5Our pursuers are upon our necks: We are weary, and have no rest.

  • Lam 5:16-17
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    16The crown is fallen from our head: Woe unto us! for we have sinned.

    17For this our heart is faint; For these things our eyes are dim;

  • Jer 4:8
    72%

    8For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned back from us.

  • Ezek 7:16
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    16But those of them that escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one in his iniquity.

  • Jer 9:10
    71%

    10For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passeth through; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts are fled, they are gone.

  • Isa 38:14
    71%

    14Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail [with looking] upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

  • Isa 5:29-30
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    71%

    29their roaring shall be like a lioness, they shall roar like young lions; yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and carry it away safe, and there shall be none to deliver.

    30And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold, darkness [and] distress; and the light is darkened in the clouds thereof.

  • Ps 74:9
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    9We see not our signs: There is no more any prophet; Neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

  • Isa 59:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14And justice is turned away backward, and righteousness standeth afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.

    15Yea, truth is lacking; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. And Jehovah saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

  • Joel 1:18
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    18How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

  • Mic 1:8
    71%

    8For this will I lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.

  • Dan 9:13-14
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    71%

    13As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet have we not entreated the favor of Jehovah our God, that we should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in thy truth.

    14Therefore hath Jehovah watched over the evil, and brought it upon us; for Jehovah our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth, and we have not obeyed his voice.

  • Isa 33:2
    71%

    2O Jehovah, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou our arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

  • Dan 9:7
    71%

    7O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.

  • Job 19:7
    70%

    7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.

  • Lam 1:16
    70%

    16For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water; Because the comforter that should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy hath prevailed.

  • Ps 69:20
    70%

    20Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.

  • Isa 59:4
    70%

    4None sueth in righteousness, and none pleadeth in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

  • Job 18:3
    70%

    3Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [And] are become unclean in your sight?

  • Lam 5:8
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    8Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

  • Isa 5:7
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    7For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry.

  • Ps 44:19
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    19That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.

  • Lam 1:12
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    12Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is brought upon me, Wherewith Jehovah hath afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.

  • Lam 1:4
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    4The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.

  • Isa 53:6
    70%

    6All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

  • Lam 5:3
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    3We are orphans and fatherless; Our mothers are as widows.

  • Jer 4:31
    69%

    31For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that gaspeth for breath, that spreadeth her hands, [saying], Woe is me now! for my soul fainteth before the murderers.

  • Jer 6:24
    69%

    24We have heard the report thereof; our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, [and] pangs as of a woman in travail.

  • Lam 1:18
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    18Jehovah is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and behold my sorrow: My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

  • Ps 79:4
    69%

    4We are become a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and derision to them that are round about us.