Isaiah 59:11

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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

Cross References

Isaiah 38:14

I chirp like a swallow or a crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak looking upwards. Lord, I am oppressed; support me.

Ezekiel 7:16

The survivors among them will escape and live on the mountains. Like doves of the valley, all of them will moan, each over his own iniquity.

Hosea 7:14

They do not cry to me from their hearts; rather, they wail on their beds. They slash themselves  , for grain and new wine; they turn away from me.

Jeremiah 9:1

If my head were a flowing spring, my eyes a fountain of tears, I would weep day and night over the slain of my dear   people.

Jeremiah 8:15

We hoped for peace, but there was nothing good; for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

Isaiah 59:9

Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we live in the night.

Isaiah 51:20

Your children have fainted; they lie at the head of every street like an antelope in a net. They are full of the  Lord’s fury, the rebuke of your God.

Isaiah 59:8

They have not known the path of peace, and there is no justice in their ways. They have made their roads crooked; no one who walks on them will know peace.

Isaiah 59:14

Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far off. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.

Lamentations 3:17

I have been deprived  of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.

Nahum 2:7

Beauty  is stripped; she is carried away; her ladies-in-waiting moan like the sound of doves and beat their breasts.

Nahum 2:8

Nineveh has been like a pool of water from her first days, but they are fleeing. ‘Stop! Stop! ’ they cry, but no one turns back.