Parallel Verses
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.
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
We grope for the wall like the blind, and as if we had no eyes we walk by touch; we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in graves as dead men.
11
And
We hope for
For salvation, but it is far from us.
Cross References
Isaiah 38:14
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I complain; I mourned as a dove; I raised my eyes upward, O LORD, I am suffering violence; comfort me.
Ezekiel 7:16
And those that escape of them shall be upon the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, each one for his iniquity.
Job 30:28-29
I went about darkened, but not by the sun; I stood up and cried out in the congregation.
Psalm 32:3-4
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Psalm 38:8
I am feeble and sore broken; I roar by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
Psalm 85:9
Surely his saving health is near those that fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.
Psalm 119:155
Saving health is far from the wicked, for they do not seek 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.
Isaiah 59:9
Therefore judgment has withdrawn from us, and righteousness has never overtaken us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
Jeremiah 8:15
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
Jeremiah 9:1
Oh that my head were waters and my eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Hosea 7:14
And they have not cried unto me with their heart when they howled upon their beds; they congregated themselves for the wheat and the wine, and they rebelled against me.