Isaiah 59:11

A Conservative Version

We all roar like bears, and moan greatly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.

Cross References

Isaiah 38:14

Like a swallow [or] a crane, so I chattered. I moaned as a dove. My eyes fail [with looking] upward. O LORD, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

Ezekiel 7:16

But those of them who escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys. All of them moaning, each one in his iniquity.

Hosea 7:14

And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howl upon their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They rebel against me.

Jeremiah 9:1

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!

Jeremiah 8:15

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

Isaiah 59:9

Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us. We look for light, but, behold, darkness, for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

Isaiah 51:20

Thy sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net. They are full of the wrath of LORD, the rebuke of thy God.

Psalm 119:155

Salvation is far from the wicked, for they seek not thy statutes.

Psalm 85:9

Surely his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.

Psalm 38:8

I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned because of the disquietness of my heart.

Psalm 55:2

Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan,

Isaiah 59:8

They do not know the way of peace, and there is no justice in their goings. They have made them crooked paths. Whoever goes in it does not know peace.

Isaiah 59:14

And justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off. For truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.

Lamentations 3:17

And thou have removed my soul far off from peace. I forgot prosperity.

Nahum 2:7

And it is decreed. She is uncovered. She is carried away, and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating upon their breasts.

Psalm 119:150

They draw near who follow after wickedness. They are far from thy law.

Nahum 2:8

But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water. Yet they flee away. Stand, stand, [they cry], but none looks back.