Isaiah 59:11

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Isa 38:14 : 14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I mourned as a dove: my eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
  • Ezek 7:16 : 16 But those who escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, everyone for his iniquity.
  • Hos 7:14 : 14 And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they gather themselves for grain and wine, and they rebel against me.
  • Isa 51:20 : 20 Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, like a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.
  • Isa 59:9 : 9 Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us: we wait for light, but see obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
  • Jer 8:15 : 15 We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold, trouble!
  • Jer 9:1 : 1 Oh that my head were waters, and my 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 went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation. 29 I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to owls.
  • Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I kept silent, my bones grew old through my groaning all day long. 4 For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; my vitality turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
  • Ps 38:8 : 8 I am feeble and severely broken; I have roared because of the disquiet of my heart.
  • Ps 85:9 : 9 Surely His salvation is near to those who fear Him, that glory may dwell in our land.
  • Ps 119:155 : 155 Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek Your statutes.

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  • Isa 59:9-10
    2 verses
    81%

    9Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us: we wait for light, but see obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

    10We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noon as in the night; we are in desolate places like dead men.

  • Isa 59:12
    77%

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

  • Jer 14:19
    76%

    19Have You utterly rejected Judah? Has Your soul loathed Zion? Why have You struck us down, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, but behold, trouble!

  • Jer 8:15
    76%

    15We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold, trouble!

  • Lam 4:17-19
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    74%

    17As for us, our eyes failed as we watched for a nation that could not save us.

    18They hunted our steps, so that we could not walk in our streets; our end drew near, our days were fulfilled, for our end came.

    19Our persecutors were swifter than the eagles of the sky; they pursued us on the mountains, they lay in 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 our dwellings have cast us out.'

  • Isa 64:6-7
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    74%

    6But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

    7And there is none who calls upon your name, who stirs up himself to take hold of you: for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us, because of our iniquities.

  • Jer 8:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of those who dwell in a far country: Is not the LORD in Zion? Is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images and strange idols?

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

  • Isa 26:17-18
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    73%

    17Like a woman with child, who draws near the time of her delivery, is in pain and cries out in her pangs; so have we been in Your sight, O LORD.

    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, nor have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

  • Lam 5:5
    72%

    5Our necks are under persecution; we labor and have no rest.

  • Lam 5:16-17
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    72%

    16The crown has fallen from our head; woe to 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 yourselves with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.

  • Ezek 7:16
    71%

    16But those who escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, everyone for his iniquity.

  • Jer 9:10
    71%

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

  • Isa 38:14
    71%

    14Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I mourned as a dove: my eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

  • Isa 5:29-30
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    71%

    29Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yes, they shall roar, and seize the prey, and shall carry it away safely, and none shall deliver it.

    30And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one looks to the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened by the clouds of the heavens.

  • Ps 74:9
    71%

    9We do not see our signs: there is no more any prophet; neither is there among us any who knows how long.

  • Isa 59:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14And judgment is turned backward, and justice stands far off: for truth has fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

    15Yes, truth fails; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

  • Joel 1:18
    71%

    18How the animals groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

  • Mic 1:8
    71%

    8Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the jackals, and mourning as the ostriches.

  • Dan 9:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13As it is written in the law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us: yet we have not made our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth.

    14Therefore the LORD has watched over the calamity, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all His works which He does: for we have not obeyed His voice.

  • Isa 33:2
    71%

    2O LORD, be gracious to us; we have waited for you. Be their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.

  • Dan 9:7
    71%

    7O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us belongs confusion of face, as it is this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those near and those far off, through all the countries where You have driven them, because of their trespass which they have trespassed against You.

  • Job 19:7
    70%

    7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no justice.

  • Lam 1:16
    70%

    16For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

  • Ps 69:20
    70%

    20Reproach has 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%

    4No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth: they trust in vanity and speak lies; they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.

  • Job 18:3
    70%

    3Why are we counted as beasts, and considered vile in your sight?

  • Lam 5:8
    70%

    8Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.

  • Isa 5:7
    70%

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

  • Ps 44:19
    70%

    19Though You have severely broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

  • Lam 1:12
    70%

    12Is it nothing to you, all you that pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is done to me, with which the LORD has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

  • Lam 1:4
    70%

    4The ways of Zion mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

  • Isa 53:6
    70%

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

  • Lam 5:3
    70%

    3We are orphans and fatherless; our mothers are like widows.

  • Jer 4:31
    69%

    31For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labor, and the anguish as of her that brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewails herself, that spreads her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

  • Jer 6:24
    69%

    24We have heard the report, our hands grow weak; anguish has taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in labor.

  • Lam 1:18
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    18The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

  • Ps 79:4
    69%

    4We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.