Isaiah 59:11
What does Isaiah 59:11 mean?
A plain-English look at Isaiah 59:11 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000We 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.
KJV
King James Version · 1611We 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901We 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.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949We 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.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862We 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.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752We shall roar all of us like bears, and shall lament as mournful doves. We have looked for judgment, and there is none: for salvation, and it is far from us.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890We 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.
Context
v.10We grope for the wall like the blind; yea, we grope as they that have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among them that are lusty we are as dead men.
v.11This passage
v.12For 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:
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Isaiah 38:14
Like a swallowora crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.
- Isaiah 51:20
Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as an antelope in a net; they are full of the wrath of Jehovah, the rebuke of thy God.
- Hosea 7:14
And they have not cried unto me with their heart, but they howl upon their beds: they assemble themselves for grain and new wine; they rebel against me.
- Ezekiel 7:16
But those of them that escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one in his iniquity.
- Psalms 85:9
Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him, That glory may dwell in our land.
- Psalms 119:155
Salvation is far from the wicked; For they seek not thy statutes.
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