Isaiah 59:11

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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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  • Isa 38:14 : 14 I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am crushed, take up my cause.
  • Ezek 7:16 : 16 And those of them who get away safely will go and be in the secret places like the doves of the valleys, all of them will come to death, every one in his sin.
  • Hos 7:14 : 14 And they have not made prayer to me in their hearts, but they make loud cries on their beds; they are cutting themselves for food and wine, they are turned against me.
  • Isa 51:20 : 20 Your sons are overcome, like a roe in a net; they are full of the wrath of the Lord, the punishment of your God.
  • Isa 59:9 : 9 For this cause our right is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us: we are looking for light, but there is only the dark; for the shining of the sun, but our way is in the night.
  • Jer 8:15 : 15 We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.
  • Jer 9:1 : 1 If only my head was a stream of waters and my eyes fountains of weeping, so that I might go on weeping day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!
  • Job 30:28-29 : 28 I go about in dark clothing, uncomforted; I get up in the public place, crying out for help. 29 I have become a brother to the jackals, and go about in the company of ostriches.
  • Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I kept my mouth shut, my bones were wasted, because of my crying all through the day. 4 For the weight of your hand was on me day and night; my body became dry like the earth in summer. (Selah.)
  • Ps 38:8 : 8 I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.
  • Ps 85:9 : 9 Truly, his salvation is near to his worshippers; so that glory may be in our land.
  • Ps 119:155 : 155 Salvation is far from evil-doers; for they have made no search for your rules.

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  • Isa 59:9-10
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    9 For this cause our right is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us: we are looking for light, but there is only the dark; for the shining of the sun, but our way is in the night.

    10 We go on our way, like blind men feeling for the wall, even like those who have no eyes: we are running against things in daylight as if it was evening; our place is in the dark like dead men.

  • Isa 59:12
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    12 For our evil doings are increased before you, and our sins give witness against us: for our evil doings are with us, and we have knowledge of our sins:

  • Jer 14:19
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    19 Have you completely given up Judah? is your soul turned in disgust from Zion? why have you given us blows from which there is no one to make us well? we were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there was only a great fear.

  • Jer 8:15
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    15 We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.

  • Lam 4:17-19
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    17 Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.

    18 They go after our steps so that we may not go in our streets: our end is near, our days are numbered; for our end has come.

    19 Those who went after us were quicker than the eagles of the heaven, driving us before them on the mountains, waiting secretly for us in the waste land.

  • Jer 9:18-19
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    18 Let them quickly make cries of sorrow for us, so that drops may be flowing from our eyes till they are streaming with water.

    19 For a sound of weeping goes up from Zion, a cry, How has destruction come on us? we are overcome with shame because we have gone away from our land; he has sent us out from our house.

  • Isa 64:6-7
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    6 And there is no one who makes prayer to your name, or who is moved to keep true to you: for your face is veiled from us, and you have given us into the power of our sins.

    7 But now, O Lord, you are our father; we are the earth, and you are our maker; and we are all the work of your hand.

  • Jer 8:19-20
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    19 The voice of the cry of the daughter of my people comes from a far land: Is the Lord not in Zion? is not her King in her? Why have they made me angry with their images and their strange gods which are no gods?

    20 The grain-cutting is past, the summer is ended, and no salvation has come to us.

  • Isa 26:17-18
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    17 As a woman with child, whose time is near, is troubled, crying out in her pain; so have we been before you, O Lord.

    18 We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have given birth to wind; no salvation has come to the earth through us, and no children have come into the world.

  • Lam 5:5
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    5 Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest.

  • Lam 5:16-17
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    16 The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.

    17 Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;

  • Jer 4:8
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    8 For this put on haircloth, with weeping and loud crying: for the burning wrath of the Lord is not turned back from us.

  • Ezek 7:16
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    16 And those of them who get away safely will go and be in the secret places like the doves of the valleys, all of them will come to death, every one in his sin.

  • Jer 9:10
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    10 Give yourselves to weeping, crying out in sorrow for the mountains; and for the fields of the waste land send up a song of grief, because they are burned up, so that no one goes through; there is no sound of cattle; the bird of the heavens and the beast are in flight and are gone.

  • Isa 38:14
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    14 I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am crushed, take up my cause.

  • Isa 5:29-30
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    29 The sound of their armies will be like the voice of a lion, and their war-cry like the noise of young lions: with loud cries they will come down on their food and will take it away safely, and there will be no one to take it out of their hands.

    30 And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.

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    9 We do not see our signs: there is no longer any prophet, or anyone among us to say how long.

  • Isa 59:14-15
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    14 And the right is turned back, and righteousness is far away: for good faith is not to be seen in the public places, and upright behaviour may not come into the town.

    15 Yes, faith is gone; and he whose heart is turned from evil comes into the power of the cruel: and the Lord saw it, and he was angry that there was no one to take up their cause.

  • Joel 1:18
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    18 What sounds of pain come from the beasts! the herds of cattle are at a loss because there is no grass for them; even the flocks of sheep are no longer to be seen.

  • Mic 1:8
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    8 For this I will be full of sorrow and give cries of grief; I will go uncovered and unclothed: I will give cries of grief like the jackals and will be in sorrow like the ostriches.

  • Dan 9:13-14
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    13 As it was recorded in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us: but we have made no prayer for grace from the Lord our God that we might be turned from our evil doings and come to true wisdom.

    14 So the Lord has been watching over this evil and has made it come on us: for the Lord our God is upright in all his acts which he has done, and we have not given ear to his voice.

  • Isa 33:2
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    2 O Lord, have mercy on us; for we have been waiting for your help: be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of trouble.

  • Dan 9:7
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    7 O Lord, righteousness is yours, but shame is on us, even to this day; and on the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, and on all Israel, those who are near and those who are far off, in all the countries where you have sent them because of the sin which they have done against you.

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    7 Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.

  • Lam 1:16
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    16 For these things I am weeping; my eye is streaming with water; because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me: my children are made waste, because the hater is strong.

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    20 My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.

  • Isa 59:4
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    4 No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.

  • Job 18:3
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    3 Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?

  • Lam 5:8
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    8 Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.

  • Isa 5:7
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    7 For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.

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    19 Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.

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    12 Come to me, all you who go by! Keep your eyes on me, and see if there is any pain like the pain of my wound, which the Lord has sent on me in the day of his burning wrath.

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    4 The ways of Zion are sad, because no one comes to the holy meeting; all her doorways are made waste, her priests are breathing out sorrow: her virgins are troubled, and it is bitter for her.

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    6 We all went wandering like sheep; going every one of us after his desire; and the Lord put on him the punishment of us all.

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    3 We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows.

  • Jer 4:31
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    31 A voice has come to my ears like the voice of a woman in birth-pains, the pain of one giving birth to her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, fighting for breath, stretching out her hands, saying, Now sorrow is mine! for my strength is gone from me before the takers of life.

  • Jer 6:24
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    24 The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth.

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    18 The Lord is upright; for I have gone against his orders: give ear, now, all you peoples, and see my pain, my virgins and my young men have gone away as prisoners.

  • Ps 79:4
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    4 We are looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and made sport of by those who are round us.