Isaiah 59:11
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.
Isaiah 59:11 in other translations
| BSB | We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us. |
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| WEB | We all roar like bears and moan sadly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us. |
| ASV | 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. |
| YLT | We make a noise as bears--all of us, And as doves we coo sorely; We wait for judgment, and there is none, For salvation--it hath been far from us. |
| DARBY | We roar all like bears, and mourn grievously like doves: we look for judgment, and there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us. |
| BBE | 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. |
| Webster | We all roar like bears, and mourn bitterly like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us. |
What does Isaiah 59:11 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 59:9-15
If we shut our eyes against the light of Divine truth, it is just with God to hide from our eyes the things that belong to our peace. The sins of those who profess themselves God's people, are worse than the sins of others. And the sins of a nation bring public judgments, when not restrained by public justice. Men may murmur under calamities, but nothing will truly profit while they reject Christ and his gospel.
Isaiah 59:11 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Isaiah 59:11
- Isaiah 38:14
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
- 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 for his iniquity.
- Isaiah 59:9
Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
- 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!
- Psalms 85:9
Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.
- Psalms 32:3-4
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
- Psalms 119:155
Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.
- Isaiah 51:20
Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God.
- Hosea 7:14
And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.
- Job 30:28-29
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation. I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
- Psalms 38:8
I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
- Jeremiah 8:15
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
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Context
- Isaiah 59:10
We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
- Isaiah 59:11
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.
- Isaiah 59:12
For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
Isaiah 59:11 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Aullamos como osos todos nosotros, y gemimos lastimeramente como palomas: esperamos juicio, y no lo hay; salud, y alejóse de nosotros. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Nous rugissons tous comme les ours, et nous ne cessons de gémir comme les colombes: nous attendons le juste jugement, et il n’y en a pas; le salut, et il est loin de nous. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wir brummen alle wie die Bären, und wir girren wie die Tauben. Wir harren auf Recht, und da ist keines; auf Rettung, aber sie ist fern von uns. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Rugiemus quasi ursi omnes, et quasi columbæ meditantes gememus: exspectavimus judicium, et non est; salutem, et elongata est a nobis. |