Isaiah 59:11

The Scriptures 1998

All of us growl like bears, and moan sadly like doves. We look for right-ruling, but there is none; for deliverance, but it is far from us.

Cross References

Psalm 119:150

Those who pursue mischief have drawn near; They have been far from Your Torah.

Psalm 119:155

Deliverance is far from the wrong ones, For they have not sought Your laws.

Psalm 38:8

I have become weak and greatly crushed; I howled from the groaning of my heart.

Psalm 55:2

Give heed to me, and answer me; I wander and moan in my complaint,

Psalm 85:9

Truly, His deliverance is near to those who fear Him, For esteem to dwell in our land.

Isaiah 38:14

“Like a swallow or a thrush, so I chattered; I moaned like a dove; my eyes look weakly on high. O יהוה, I am oppressed, undertake for me!

Isaiah 51:20

Your sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, like a gazelle in a net. They are filled with the wrath of יהוה, the rebuke of your Elohim.

Isaiah 59:14

And right-ruling is driven back, and righteousness stands far off. For truth has fallen in the street, and right is unable to enter.

Isaiah 59:8

The way of peace they have not known, and there is no right-ruling in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves, whoever treads in them shall not know peace.

Isaiah 59:9

Therefore right-ruling has been far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We look for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in thick darkness!

Jeremiah 8:15

We looked for peace, but there was no good; and for a time of healing, but see – fear!

Jeremiah 9:1

Oh, that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, and I would weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

Lamentations 3:17

And You have removed my being far from peace, I have forgotten goodness.

Ezekiel 7:16

while they who escape of them shall escape and be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, each for his crookedness.

Hosea 7:14

and did not cry out to Me with their heart when they wailed upon their beds. For grain and new wine they assemble themselves; they turn away from Me.

Nahum 2:7

And it is established: she shall be exiled, she shall be led away. And her female servants are moaning as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.

Nahum 2:8

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