11We 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.


In Context

8 the way of peace they know not, and there is no judgment in their goings; they have made their paths crooked: whoso goeth therein knoweth not peace.

9 Therefore is justice far from us, and righteousness overtaketh us not: we wait for light, and behold darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at midday as in the twilight; amongst the flourishing we are as the dead.

11 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.

12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us; and our iniquities, we know them:

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

Isaiah 59:11 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

59:11We 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

59:11We all growl like bears; we moan mournfully like doves. We look for justice, but find none; for deliverance, but it is far away.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

59:11We 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

59:11We 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

59:11We 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

59:11We 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.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

59:11We 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 Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

59:11We 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

59:11We 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.