KJV King James Version
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.
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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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
WEB World English Bible
We roar all like bears, and moan bitterly like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
ASV American Standard Version
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 Young’s Literal Translation
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.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 59
8 The way of peace they know not; and [there is] no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
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.
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].
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.
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;
13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
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נֶהֱמֶ֤הH1993 · ha.mahto roarכַדֻּבִּים֙H1677 · dovbearכֻּלָּ֔נוּH3605 · kolallוְכַיּוֹנִ֖יםH3123 · yo.nahdoveהָגֹ֣הH1897 · ha.gahto mutterנֶהְגֶּ֑הH1897 · ha.gahto mutterנְקַוֶּ֤הH6960 · qa.vahto awaitלַמִּשְׁפָּט֙H4941 · mish.patjustice: judgementוָאַ֔יִןH369 · a.yinnothingלִֽישׁוּעָ֖הH3444 · ye.shu.ahsalvationרָחֲקָ֥הH7368 · ra.chaqto removeמִמֶּֽנּוּ׃H4480 · minfrom
Cross-references
Isaiah 38:14Like 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 7:16But 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.Psalm 119:155Salvation [is] far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.Jeremiah 9:1Oh 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!Jeremiah 8:15We looked for peace, but no good [came; and] for a time of health, and behold trouble!Isaiah 59:9Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, [but] we walk in darkness.Hosea 7:14And 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.Psalm 85:9Surely his salvation [is] nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.Job 30:28-29I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, [and] I cried in the congregation.Isaiah 51:20Thy 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.Psalm 38:8I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.Psalm 32:3-4When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
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