Isaiah 59:11 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹¹ We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgement, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ We all groan and growl like bears and moan plaintively like doves. We look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ 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.

Common English Bible

¹¹ All of us growl like bears, and like doves we moan. We expect justice, but there is none; we await salvation, but it is far from us.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ We will all roar like bears, and we will sigh like despondent doves. We hoped for judgment, and there is none; for salvation, and it is far from us.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ We shall roar all of us like bears and shall lament as mournful doves. We have looked for judgment; and there is none: for salvation; and it is far from us.

Isaiah 59:11 Cross References

Psalm 119:150

They draw nigh that follow after wickedness; They are far from thy law.

Psalm 119:155

Salvation is far from the wicked; For they seek not thy statutes.

Psalm 38:8

I am faint and sore bruised: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

Psalm 55:2

Attend unto me, and answer me: I am restless in my complaint, and moan;

Psalm 85:9

Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; That glory may dwell in our land.

Isaiah 38:14

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

Isaiah 51:20

Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the top of all the streets, as an antelope in a net; they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.

Isaiah 59:14

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

Isaiah 59:8

The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgement in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein doth not know peace.

Isaiah 59:9

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

Jeremiah 8:15

We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold dismay!

Jeremiah 9:1

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!

Lamentations 3:17

And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.

Ezekiel 7:16

But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one in his iniquity.

Hosea 7:14

And they have not cried unto me with their heart, but they howl upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, they rebel against me.

Nahum 2:7

And Huzzab is uncovered, she is carried away, and her handmaids mourn as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.

Nahum 2:8

But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of water: yet they flee away; Stand, stand, they cry; but none looketh back.