Isaiah 59:11

Bible in Basic English 1965

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.

Cross References

Psalm 119:150

Those who have evil designs against me come near; they are far from your law.

Psalm 119:155

Salvation is far from evil-doers; for they have made no search for your rules.

Psalm 38:8

I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.

Psalm 55:2

Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow;

Psalm 85:9

Truly, his salvation is near to his worshippers; so that glory may be in our land.

Isaiah 38:14

I make cries like a bird; I give out sounds of grief like a dove: my eyes are looking up with desire; O Lord, I am crushed, take up my cause.

Isaiah 51:20

Your sons are overcome, like a roe in a net; they are full of the wrath of the Lord, the punishment of your God.

Isaiah 59:14

And the right is turned back, and righteousness is far away: for good faith is not to be seen in the public places, and upright behaviour may not come into the town.

Isaiah 59:8

They have no knowledge of the way of peace, and there is no sense of what is right in their behaviour: they have made for themselves ways which are not straight; whoever goes in them has no knowledge of peace.

Isaiah 59:9

For this cause our right is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us: we are looking for light, but there is only the dark; for the shining of the sun, but our way is in the night.

Jeremiah 8:15

We were looking for peace, but no good came; and for a time of well-being, but there is only a great fear.

Jeremiah 9:1

If only my head was a stream of waters and my eyes fountains of weeping, so that I might go on weeping day and night for the dead of the daughter of my people!

Lamentations 3:17

My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.

Ezekiel 7:16

And those of them who get away safely will go and be in the secret places like the doves of the valleys, all of them will come to death, every one in his sin.

Hosea 7:14

And they have not made prayer to me in their hearts, but they make loud cries on their beds; they are cutting themselves for food and wine, they are turned against me.

Nahum 2:7

And the queen is uncovered, she is taken away and her servant-girls are weeping like the sound of doves, hammering on their breasts.

Nahum 2:8

But Nineveh is like a pool of water whose waters are flowing away; Keep your place, they say; but no one is turning back.