Isaiah 59:11

Grief Discouragement and depression

⁹ Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

¹⁰ Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.

We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.

¹² For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. Our transgressions are indeed with us, and we know our iniquities:

¹³ rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
KJV: 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.
WEB: We all roar like bears and moan sadly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.
ASV: 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.
DARBY: 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.
BLB: We growl like bears—all of us, and we moan mournfully like doves; we wait for justice, and [there is] none; for salvation—it is far from us.

ÅB: Vi brummer som bjørner alle sammen, og som duer kurrer vi; vi venter på retten, og den kommer ikke, på frelsen, og den er langt borte fra oss.
OTB: Vi brummer alle som bjørner og stønner sørgelig som duer. Vi ser etter rettferdighet, men finner ingen; etter frelse, men den er langt fra oss.
B1930: Vi brummer som bjørner alle sammen, og som duer kurrer vi; vi venter på retten, og den kommer ikke, på frelsen, og den er langt borte fra oss.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Isaiah 38:14
I chirp like a swallow or crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.”
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Ezekiel 7:16
The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity.
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Isaiah 59:9
Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
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Jeremiah 9:1
Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.
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Psalms 85:9
Surely His salvation is near to those who fear Him, that His glory may dwell in our land.
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Psalms 32:3–4
When I kept silent, my bones became brittle from my groaning all day long.
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Psalms 119:155
Salvation is far from the wicked because they do not seek Your statutes.
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Isaiah 51:20
Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the wrath of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.
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