Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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!
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 Let's grope along the wall like the blind; let us grope like those who have no eyes. We stumble at midday as if it were twilight, in desolate places like dead people. 11 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. 12 "For our transgressions before you are many, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we acknowledge them:
Cross References
Isaiah 38:14
Like a swallow or a crane I chirp, I moan like a dove. My eyes look weakly upward. O Lord, I am oppressed, so stand up for me!
Ezekiel 7:16
Fugitives will escape to the mountains like doves fleeing through the valleys, all of them moaning because of their own iniquity.
Job 30:28-29
"In growing darkness, I walked without sunlight; I stood in the congregation to cry for help.
Psalm 32:3-4
When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away by my groaning all day long.
Psalm 38:8
I am weak and utterly crushed; I cry out in distress because of my heart's anguish.
Psalm 85:9
Surely, he will soon deliver those who fear him, for his glory will live in our land.
Psalm 119:155
Deliverance remains remote from the wicked, for they do not seek your statutes.
Isaiah 51:20
Your children have fainted. They lie at the head of every street, like antelope caught in a trap, filled with the anger of the LORD and the rebuke of your God.
Isaiah 59:9
"So justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We wait for light, but look there is darkness; we wait for brightness, but we walk in deep darkness.
Jeremiah 8:15
We waited for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but instead there was terror.
Jeremiah 9:1
"Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears, for then I would cry day and night for those of my people who have been killed.
Hosea 7:14
They will not cry to me from their heart instead, they wail on their beds. They gather together to eat and drink, turning away from me.