Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Isaiah 59:11
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We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
11 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.
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