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.


In Context

8 The way of peace they don't know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace.

9 Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

10 We grope for the wall like the blind; yes, we grope as those who have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among those who are lusty we are as dead men.

11 We 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.

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

13 transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

59:11We 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.

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 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.