Isaiah 59:11

Grief Discouragement and depression

⁹ Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

¹⁰ We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

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.

¹² For 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;

¹³ In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

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
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
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Ezekiel 7:16
But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.
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Isaiah 59:9
Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.
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Jeremiah 9:1
Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
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Psalms 85:9
Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.
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Psalms 32:3–4
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
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Psalms 119:155
Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.
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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.
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