Isaiah 59:11

Bishops' Bible (1568)

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

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  • Isa 38:14 : 14 Then chattered I lyke a swallowe, and lyke a crane, and mourned lyke a doue, I lift vp mine eyes into the heyght: O Lorde sayde my sicknesse kepeth me downe, ease thou me.
  • Ezek 7:16 : 16 But they that flee away from them shall escape, and shalbe in the mountaynes lyke the doues of the valleys, all they shall mourne, euery one for his iniquitie.
  • Hos 7:14 : 14 They call not vpon me with their heartes, but lye howlyng vpon their beddes: they wyll assemble them selues for corne and wine, but rebel against me.
  • Isa 51:20 : 20 Thy sonnes lye comfortlesse at the head of euery streete like a take venison, and are full of the terrible wrath of the Lorde, and punishment of thy God.
  • Isa 59:9 : 9 And this is the cause that equitie is so farre from vs, and that righteousnesse commeth not nie vs: We loke for light, lo it is darknesse: for the morning shine, see, we walke in the darke.
  • Jer 8:15 : 15 We loked for peace, and we fare not the better, we wayted for the tyme of health, and lo, here is nothing but trouble.
  • Jer 9:1 : 1 O who wyll geue my head water inough, and a wel of teares for mine eyes, that I may weepe night and day for the slaughter of my people?
  • Job 30:28-29 : 28 I went mourning without heate, I stoode vp in the congregation, & communed with them. 29 But nowe I am a brother of dragons, and a felowe of Estriches.
  • Ps 32:3-4 : 3 For whyle I helde my tongue: my bones consumed away through my dayly roaring. 4 For thy hande is heauie vpon me day and night: and my moysture is like the drouth in sommer. Selah.
  • Ps 38:8 : 8 I am feeble and sore smitten: I haue rored for the very disquietnesse of my heart.
  • Ps 85:9 : 9 For truely his saluation is nye them that feare him: insomuch that glory dwelleth in our earth.
  • Ps 119:155 : 155 Saluation is farre from the vngodly: for they study not thy statutes.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 59:9-10
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    81%

    9And this is the cause that equitie is so farre from vs, and that righteousnesse commeth not nie vs: We loke for light, lo it is darknesse: for the morning shine, see, we walke in the darke.

    10We grope lyke the blinde vpon the wall, we grope euen as one that hath none eyes, we stumble at the noone day as though it were towarde night, in the falling places, lyke men that are halfe dead.

  • Isa 59:12
    77%

    12For our offences are many before thee, and our sinnes testifie against vs: yea we must confesse that we offende, and knowledge that we do amisse,

  • Jer 14:19
    76%

    19Hast thou then vtterly forsaken Iuda? Doest thou so abhorre Sion? Wherfore hast thou so plagued vs, that we can be healed no more? We loked for peace, and there commeth no good, for the tyme of health, and lo here is nothyng but trouble.

  • Jer 8:15
    76%

    15We loked for peace, and we fare not the better, we wayted for the tyme of health, and lo, here is nothing but trouble.

  • Lam 4:17-19
    3 verses
    74%

    17Wherefore yet our eyes fayled vs, whyles we looked for our vayne helpe, seeing we euer wayted vpon a people that coulde do vs no good.

    18They lay so sharpe wayte for vs, that we can not go safe vpon the streetes, for our ende is come, our dayes are fulfilled, our ende is here.

    19Our persecutours are swifter then the Egles of the ayre: they folowed vppon vs ouer the mountaynes, and layde wayte for vs in the wyldernesse.

  • Jer 9:18-19
    2 verses
    74%

    18And sing a mourning song of vs, that the teares may fall out of our eyes, and that our eye liddes may gushe out of water.

    19For there is a lamentable noyse heard of Sion: O howe are we so sore destroyed? O howe are we so pitiously confounded? We must forsake our owne naturall countrey, and we are shut out of our owne lodginges.

  • Isa 64:6-7
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    6We are all as an vncleane thing, and all our righteousnesse are as tilthy ragges: we fal euerychone as the leafe, for our sinnes cary vs away lyke the winde.

    7There is no man that calleth vpon thy name, that standeth vp to take hold by thee: therefore hidest thou thy face from vs, and consumest vs, because of our sinnes.

  • Jer 8:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19For lo, the voyce of the crying of my people is hearde, for feare of them that come from a farre countrey: Is not the Lord in Sion? Is not her king in her? Wherefore then haue they greeued me shall the Lorde say with their images, and foolishe straunge fashions of a forraine god?

    20The haruest is gone, the sommer hath an ende, and we are not helped.

  • Isa 26:17-18
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    73%

    17Like as a woman with chylde that draweth nye towardes her trauayle is sorie and cryeth in her paynes: euen so haue we ben in thy sight O Lorde.

    18We haue ben with chylde and suffred paine, as though we had brought forth winde: for there is no saluation in the earth, neither do the inhabiters of the worlde submit them selues.

  • Lam 5:5
    72%

    5Our neckes are vnder persecution, we are weery and haue no rest.

  • Lam 5:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16The garlande of our head is fallen: alas that euer we sinned so sore.

    17Therefore our heart is full of heauinesse, and our eyes dimme.

  • Jer 4:8
    72%

    8Wherfore girde your selues about with sackcloth, mourne and weepe: for the fearefull wrath of the Lorde is not withdrawen from vs.

  • Ezek 7:16
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    16But they that flee away from them shall escape, and shalbe in the mountaynes lyke the doues of the valleys, all they shall mourne, euery one for his iniquitie.

  • Jer 9:10
    71%

    10Upon the mountaines wyl I take vp a lamentation and a sorowfull crye, and a mourning vpon the faire places of the wildernesse: Namely, howe they are so brent vp, that no man goeth there any more, yea a man shall not heare one beast crye there: byrdes and cattell are all gone from thence.

  • Isa 38:14
    71%

    14Then chattered I lyke a swallowe, and lyke a crane, and mourned lyke a doue, I lift vp mine eyes into the heyght: O Lorde sayde my sicknesse kepeth me downe, ease thou me.

  • Isa 5:29-30
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    71%

    29His crye is as it were of a Lion, and he roreth lyke Lions whelpes: they shall roare and hantche vpon the pray, and no man shall recouer it, nor get it from them.

    30In that day he shalbe so fierce vpon him as the raging of the sea: then one shall beholde the lande, and lo darkenesse and sorow, and the light is darkened in the heauens therof.

  • Ps 74:9
    71%

    9We see not our ensignes, there is not one prophete more: no not one is there amongst vs that vnderstandeth our case.

  • Isa 59:14-15
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    71%

    14And therefore is equitie gone aside, and righteousnesse standeth farre of, trueth is fallen downe in the streete, and the thing that is playne and open, may not be shewed.

    15Yea the trueth is taken away, and he that refraineth hym selfe from euyll, must be spoyled: When the Lorde sawe this, it displeased hym sore that there was no equitie.

  • Joel 1:18
    71%

    18O howe cattell mourne? the heardes of beastes are in wofull case for lacke of pasture, and the flockes of sheepe are destroyed?

  • Mic 1:8
    71%

    8Wherefore I wyll mourne and make lamentation, bare and naked wyl I go: I wyll mourne lyke the Dragons, and take sorowe as the Ostriches.

  • Dan 9:13-14
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    71%

    13Yea, all this plague as it is written in the lawe of Moyses, is come vpon vs: yet made we not our prayers before the Lorde our God, that we might turne againe from our wickednes, and vnderstand thy trueth.

    14Therfore hath the Lord watched vpon the plague, and brought it vpon vs: for the Lorde our God is righteous in all his workes which he doth: for we would not hearken vnto his voyce.

  • Isa 33:2
    71%

    2O Lorde haue mercie vpon vs, we haue put our whole trust in thee: be an arme to such early, and our health in the tyme of trouble.

  • Dan 9:7
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    7O Lorde, righteousnesse belongeth vnto thee, vnto vs open shame, as is came to passe this day vnto euery man of Iuda, and to them that dwel at Hierusalem yea vnto all Israel, whether they be farre or nye throughout all the landes whither thou hast driuen them, because of their offences that they haue done against thee.

  • Job 19:7
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    7If I complaine of the violence that is done vnto me, I cannot be heard: and if I crye, there is no sentence geuen with me.

  • Lam 1:16
    70%

    16Therfore do I weepe, and mine eyes gushe out of water: for the comfort that shoulde quicken me is farre fro me, my children are driuen away: for why? the enemie hath gotten the vpper hande.

  • Ps 69:20
    70%

    20Reproofe hath broke my heart a peeces, I am full of heauinesse: I loked for some to haue pitie on me, but there was none, and for some that shoulde comfort me, but I coulde fynde none.

  • Isa 59:4
    70%

    4No man regardeth righteousnesse, and no man iudgeth truely: euery man hopeth in vayne things, and imagineth deceipt, conceaueth weerinesse, and bringeth foorth euill.

  • Job 18:3
    70%

    3Wherfore are we counted as beastes, and reputed so vyle in your sight?

  • Lam 5:8
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    8Seruauntes haue the rule of vs, and no man deliuereth vs out of their handes.

  • Isa 5:7
    70%

    7As for the vineyarde of the Lorde of hoastes, it is the house of Israel: and the man of Iuda, the plant of his pleasure: Of these he loked for equitie, but see there is oppression for ryghteousnesse, and lo it is a crying.

  • Ps 44:19
    70%

    19no not when thou hast smitten vs in the place of dragons, and couered vs with the shadowe of death.

  • Lam 1:12
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    12Haue ye no regarde all ye that go foreby, beholde & see yf there be any sorowe lyke vnto mine, wherwith the Lorde hath troubled me in the day of his fearefull wrath.

  • Lam 1:4
    70%

    4The streetes of Sion mourne, because no man cometh no more to the solempne feastes: all her gates are desolate, her priestes make lamentatio, her maydens are carefull, and she her selfe is in great heauinesse.

  • Isa 53:6
    70%

    6As for vs we are all gone astray lyke sheepe, euery one hath turned his owne way: but the Lord hath throwen vpon hym all our sinnes.

  • Lam 5:3
    70%

    3We are become carefull and fatherlesse, and our mothers are as the wydowes.

  • Jer 4:31
    69%

    31For I heare a noyse lyke as it were of a woman trauaylyng, & one labouryng of her first childe, Euen the voyce of the daughter Sion, that casteth out her armes, and sowneth, saying: Ah, wo is me, howe sore vexed and faynt is my heart for feare of the murtherers?

  • Jer 6:24
    69%

    24The fame of them haue we hearde, our armes are feeble, heauinesse and sorowe is come vpon vs, as vpon a woman trauayling with chylde.

  • Lam 1:18
    69%

    18The Lorde is righteous, for I haue prouoked his countenaunce vnto anger, O take heede all ye people and consider my heauinesse, my maydens and my young men are led away into captiuitie.

  • Ps 79:4
    69%

    4We are become an open shame vnto our neyghbours: a very scorne and derision vnto them that are rounde about vs.