Isaiah 59:11

Isaiah chapter 59 · verse 11 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

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.