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We long for God to save us from oppression and wrong, but nothing happens. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/isaiah/59-11.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/isaiah/59-11.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/isaiah/59-11.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/isaiah/1.htm">Isaiah</a> > <a href="/gntd/isaiah/59.htm">Chapter 59</a> > Verse 11</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/59-10.htm" title="Isaiah 59:10">◄</a> Isaiah 59:11 <a href="../isaiah/59-12.htm" title="Isaiah 59:12">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/isaiah/59.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/isaiah/59.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />We are frightened and distressed. We long for God to save us from oppression and wrong, but nothing happens. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/59.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />We all growl like bears; like doves we moan mournfully. We wait for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/isaiah/59.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />We growl like bears and mourn like doves. We hope for justice and victory, but they escape us. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/isaiah/59.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Like bears we all growl, like doves we moan without ceasing. We cry out for justice, but it is not there; for salvation, but it is far from us. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/isaiah/59.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />We 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.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">We 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.</p><p class="hdg">roar</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/51-20.htm">Isaiah 51:20</a> Thy children are cast forth, they have slept at the head of all the ways, and the wild ox that is snared: full of the indignation of the Lord, of the rebuke of thy God.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/32-3.htm">Psalm 32:3,4</a> Because I was silent my bones grew old; whilst I cried out all the day long. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/38-8.htm">Psalm 38:8</a> I am afflicted and humbled exceedingly: I roared with the groaning of my heart.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../hosea/7-14.htm">Hosea 7:14</a> And they have not cried to me with their heart, but they howled in their beds: they have thought upon wheat and wine, they are departed from me.</p><p class="hdg">mourn</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/38-14.htm">Isaiah 38:14</a> I will cry like a young swallow, I will meditate like a dove: my eyes are weakened looking upward: Lord, I suffer violence, answer thou for me.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../job/30-28.htm">Job 30:28,29</a> I went mourning without indignation; I rose up, and cried in the crowd. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/8-15.htm">Jeremiah 8:15</a> We looked for peace and no good came: for a time of healing, and behold fear.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/9-1.htm">Jeremiah 9:1</a> Who will give water to my head, and a fountain of tears to my eyes? and I will weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/7-16.htm">Ezekiel 7:16</a> And such of them as shall flee shall escape: and they shall be in the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them trembling, every one for his iniquity.</p><p class="hdg">for salvation</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/85-9.htm">Psalm 85:9</a> Surely his salvation is near to them that fear him : that glory may dwell in our land.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../psalms/119-155.htm">Psalm 119:155</a> Salvation is far from sinners; because they have not sought thy justifications.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/isaiah/59.htm">Sin Separates Us from God</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">10</span>We have groped for the wall, and like the blind we have groped as if we had no eyes: we have stumbled at noonday as in darkness, we are in dark places, as dead men. <span class="reftext">11</span><span class="highl">We 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.</span><span class="reftext">12</span>For our iniquities are multiplied before thee, and our sins have testified against us: for our wicked doings are with us, and have known our iniquities:…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../psalms/55-2.htm">Psalm 55:2</a></span><br />Be attentive to me and hear me. I am grieved in my exercise; and am troubled,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/38-14.htm">Isaiah 38:14</a></span><br />I will cry like a young swallow, I will meditate like a dove: my eyes are weakened looking upward: Lord, I suffer violence, answer thou for me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/59-8.htm">Isaiah 59:8</a></span><br />They have not known the way of peace, and there is no judgment in their steps: their paths are become crooked to them, every one that treadeth in them knoweth no peace.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/59-9.htm">Isaiah 59:9</a></span><br />Therefore is judgment far from us, and justice shall not overtake us. We looked for light, and behold darkness: brightness, and we have walked in the dark.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/59-14.htm">Isaiah 59:14</a></span><br />And judgment is turned away backward, and justice hath stood far off: because truth hath fallen down in the street, and equity could not come in.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../lamentations/3-17.htm">Lamentations 3:17</a></span><br />Vau. And my soul is removed far off from peace, I have forgotten good things.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../ezekiel/7-16.htm">Ezekiel 7:16</a></span><br />And such of them as shall flee shall escape: and they shall be in the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them trembling, every one for his iniquity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../nahum/2-7.htm">Nahum 2:7</a></span><br />And the soldier is led away captive: and her bondwomen were led away mourning as doves, murmuring in their hearts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/isaiah/3-9.htm">Bears</a> <a href="/isaiah/38-3.htm">Bitterly</a> <a href="/isaiah/56-1.htm">Deliverance</a> <a href="/songs/5-12.htm">Doves</a> <a 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