Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
We growl like bears all of us, And, like doves, do we, mournfully coo, - We wait For justice, and there is none, For salvation it is far from us!
New American Standard Bible
And
We hope for
For salvation, but it is far from us.
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.
Holman Bible
and moan like doves.
We hope for justice, but there is none;
for salvation, but it is far from us.
International Standard Version
We all growl like bears; we sigh mournfully like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, and for deliverance, but it's far from us.
A Conservative Version
We all roar like bears, and moan greatly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.
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.
Amplified
We all groan and growl like bears,
And coo sadly like doves;
We hope for justice, but there is none,
For salvation, but it is far from us.
Bible in Basic English
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.
Darby Translation
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.
Julia Smith Translation
We shall growl as bears all of us, and murmuring we shall murmur as doves: we shall wait for judgment, and none; for salvation, it was far from us.
King James 2000
We all growl like bears, and mourn greatly like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Lexham Expanded Bible
We all groan like bears, and we coo mutteringly like doves. We wait for justice, but there is none; for salvation, [but] it is far from us.
Modern King James verseion
We all roar like bears, and mourn grievously like doves; we look for judgment, but none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
We roar all like Bears, and mourn still like doves. We look for equity, but there is none; for health, but it is far from us.
NET Bible
We all growl like bears, we coo mournfully like doves; we wait for deliverance, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
New Heart 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.
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.
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.
Youngs 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.
Themes
Backsliding » Guilt and consequences of
Doves » Illustrative » Of mourners
Isaiah » Prophecies, reproofs, and exhortations of » Foretells calamities to judah
Interlinear
Hamah
Hagah
Mishpat
Y@shuw`ah
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 59:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
Rampant Transgression
10 We grope, as blind men for a wall, Yea, as men without eyes, do we grope, - We have stumbled at broad noon as though it were twilight, In desolate places like the dead! 11 We growl like bears all of us, And, like doves, do we, mournfully coo, - We wait For justice, and there is none, For salvation it is far from us! 12 For our transgressions have multiplied before thee, And flour sins have witnessed against us, - For, our transgressions, are with us, And as for our iniquities, we acknowledge them:
Cross References
Isaiah 38:14
As a twittering swallow, so, do I chatter, I coo as a dove, - Mine eyes languish through looking on high, O My Lord! distress is upon me - my Surety!
Ezekiel 7:16
While they who escape of them shall escape and become on the mountains as the doves of the valleys, all of them cooing, - -each one in his punishment.
Job 30:28-29
In gloom, I walked along, without sun, I arose - in the convocation, I cried out for help;
Psalm 32:3-4
When I kept silence, my bones became worn out, Through my groaning all the day;
Psalm 38:8
I am benumbed and crushed exceedingly, - I have cried aloud because of the groaning of my heart.
Psalm 85:9
Surely, near unto them who revere him, is his salvation, That the Glory, may settle down, in our land.
Psalm 119:155
Far from the lawless, is salvation, For, thy statutes, have they not sought.
Isaiah 51:20
Thy sons, have fainted, They lie at the head of all the streets like a gazelle in a net, - Who, indeed, are full of The indignation of Yahweh The rebuke of thy God.
Isaiah 59:9
For this cause, hath justice removed far from us, And righteousness overtaketh us not, - We wait for light, But lo! darkness, For brightness, In thick darkness, we walk:
Jeremiah 8:15
A waiting For prosperity, but no welfare, - For a time of healing, but lo! terror.
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!
Hosea 7:14
Neither made they outcry unto me, in their heart, although they kept on howling upon their beds, over corn and new wine, they gathered themselves together, they rebelled against me.