Isaiah 59:11
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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Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts
We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but it is nowhere, and for salvation, but it is far from us.
King James Version 1769 (Standard 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.
American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers
We roar{H1993} all like bears,{H1677} and moan{H1897} sore{H1897} like doves:{H3123} we look{H6960} for justice,{H4941} but there is none; for salvation,{H3444} but it is far off{H7368} from us.
King James Version with Strong's Numbers
We roar{H1993}{(H8799)} all like bears{H1677}, and mourn{H1897}{(H8799)} sore{H1897}{(H8800)} like doves{H3123}: we look{H6960}{(H8762)} for judgment{H4941}, but there is none; for salvation{H3444}, but it is far off{H7368}{(H8804)} from us.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
We roare all like Beeres, & mourne stil like doues. We loke for equite, but there is none: for health, but it is farre fro vs.
Geneva Bible (1560)
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.
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.
Authorized King James Version (1611)
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.
Webster's Bible (1833)
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.
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
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.
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.
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.
Bible in Basic English (1941)
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.
World English Bible (2000)
We roar all like bears, and moan bitterly like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
We all growl like bears, we coo mournfully like doves; we wait for deliverance, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
Referenced Verses
- 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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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.
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12 For 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;
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17 As for us, our eyes failed as we watched for a nation that could not save us.
18 They hunted our steps, so that we could not walk in our streets; our end drew near, our days were fulfilled, for our end came.
19 Our persecutors were swifter than the eagles of the sky; they pursued us on the mountains, they lay in wait for us in the wilderness.
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18 And 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.
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17 Like 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.
18 We 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.
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5 Our necks are under persecution; we labor and have no rest.
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16 The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!
17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
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8 For this gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
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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.
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10 For 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.
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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.
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8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the jackals, and mourning as the ostriches.
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13 As 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.
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2 O LORD, be gracious to us; we have waited for you. Be their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
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7 O 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.
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7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard; I cry aloud, but there is no justice.
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16 For 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.
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20 Reproach 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.
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4 No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth: they trust in vanity and speak lies; they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.
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3 Why are we counted as beasts, and considered vile in your sight?
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8 Servants rule over us; there is none to deliver us from their hand.
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7 For 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.
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19 Though You have severely broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
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12 Is 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.
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4 The 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.
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6 All 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.
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3 We are orphans and fatherless; our mothers are like widows.
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31 For 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.
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24 We have heard the report, our hands grow weak; anguish has taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in labor.
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18 The 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.
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4 We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.