Isaiah 59:11

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We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but it is nowhere, and for salvation, but it is far from us.

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  • Isa 38:14 : 14 I chirp like a swift or a crane, I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look to the heavens. Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.
  • Ezek 7:16 : 16 Those who escape will flee to the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each because of their iniquity.
  • Hos 7:14 : 14 They do not cry out to me from their hearts but wail on their beds. They gather together for grain and new wine but turn away from me.
  • Isa 51:20 : 20 Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street like antelopes caught in a net. They are filled with the wrath of the Lord, with the rebuke of your God.
  • Isa 59:9 : 9 Therefore, justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but behold, there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
  • Jer 8:15 : 15 We hoped for peace, but no good has come. We looked for a time of healing, but there is only terror.
  • Jer 9:1 : 1 If only I had a place to stay in the wilderness, a travelers' shelter, so that I might leave my people and go away from them. For they are all adulterers, a gathering of traitors.
  • Job 30:28-29 : 28 I walk in mourning without sunlight; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help. 29 I am a brother to jackals and a companion to ostriches.
  • Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. 4 For day and night your hand was heavy on me; my strength was drained as in the heat of summer. Selah.
  • Ps 38:8 : 8 For my loins are filled with burning, and there is no health in my body.
  • Ps 85:9 : 9 I will listen to what God the LORD says; he promises peace to his people, his faithful ones, but let them not return to folly.
  • Ps 119:155 : 155 Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek Your statutes.

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    9Therefore, justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but behold, there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

    10We grope along the wall like the blind; we grope as if we had no eyes. At midday, we stumble as if it were twilight; among the strong, we are like the dead.

  • Isa 59:12
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    12For our transgressions are multiplied before You, and our sins testify against us. Indeed, our transgressions are with us, and we know our iniquities.

  • Jer 14:19
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    19Have You utterly rejected Judah? Does Your soul loathe Zion? Why have You struck us so that we cannot be healed? We hoped for peace, but no good has come; for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

  • Jer 8:15
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    15We hoped for peace, but no good has come. We looked for a time of healing, but there is only terror.

  • Lam 4:17-19
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    17Our eyes still fail as we look in vain for help; we have watched eagerly for a nation that could not save us.

    18Our steps were closely pursued so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end drew near; our days were fulfilled, for our end had come.

    19Our pursuers were swifter than eagles in the sky; they chased us over the mountains and lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

  • Jer 9:18-19
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    18'For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion: “How devastated we are! We are utterly ashamed, for we have left the land and our dwellings have been cast off.”'

    19'Hear the word of the Lord, you women; let your ears receive the words of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail and one another to mourn.'

  • Isa 64:6-7
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    6No one calls on your name or rouses themselves to take hold of you, for you have hidden your face from us and have melted us away in the grip of our sins.

    7But now, LORD, you are our Father. We are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hands.

  • Jer 8:19-20
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    19Listen to the cry of my people from a land far away: 'Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King no longer there?' Why have they provoked me to anger with their idols, with their worthless foreign gods?

    20The harvest is past, the summer has ended, and we are not saved.

  • Isa 26:17-18
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    17As a pregnant woman about to give birth writhes and cries out in her labor pains, so were we in Your presence, LORD.

    18We were pregnant, we writhed in pain, but we gave birth only to wind. We have not brought salvation to the earth, and no one is born to inhabit the world.

  • Lam 5:5
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    5We are pursued with burdens upon our necks; we are weary and find no rest.

  • Lam 5:16-17
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    16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

    17Because of this, our hearts are faint, and our eyes grow dim with tears.

  • Jer 4:8
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    8For this, put on sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.

  • Ezek 7:16
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    16Those who escape will flee to the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, each because of their iniquity.

  • Jer 9:10
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    10I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the towns of Judah desolate, without inhabitants.

  • Isa 38:14
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    14I chirp like a swift or a crane, I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak as I look to the heavens. Lord, I am oppressed; be my security.

  • Isa 5:29-30
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    29Their roar is like that of a lion; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey and carry it off, with no one to rescue it.

    30On that day, they will roar over it like the roaring of the sea. And if one looks at the land, there is only darkness and distress; even the light is darkened by the clouds.

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    9We no longer see our signs; there is no more prophet, and no one among us knows how long.

  • Isa 59:14-15
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    14Justice is driven back, and righteousness stands far off, for truth has stumbled in the streets, and honesty cannot enter.

    15Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey. The LORD saw this and was displeased, for there was no justice.

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    18How the cattle groan! The herds of livestock wander in confusion because they have no pasture; even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

  • Mic 1:8
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    8Because of this, I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like jackals and mourn like ostriches.

  • Dan 9:13-14
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    13As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us, yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our sins and gaining insight into Your truth.

    14Therefore, the LORD has kept the disaster in store and brought it upon us, for the LORD our God is righteous in everything He does, yet we have not obeyed His voice.

  • Isa 33:2
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    2LORD, be gracious to us! We have waited for You. Be our strength every morning and our salvation in times of distress.

  • Dan 9:7
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    7Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but shame covers our faces today—to the people of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and all Israel, both near and far, in all the countries where You have driven them because of their unfaithfulness to You.

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    7Behold, I cry out, 'Violence!' but I am not answered; I call for help, but there is no justice.

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  • Ps 69:20
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    20You know my reproach, my shame, and my disgrace; all my adversaries are before you.

  • Isa 59:4
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    4No one calls for justice, and no one pleads with integrity. They rely on empty words and speak lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.

  • Job 18:3
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    3Why are we regarded as animals and considered unclean in your eyes?

  • Lam 5:8
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    8Slaves now rule over us, and there is no one to free us from their power.

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    19Our hearts have not turned back, nor have our steps strayed from Your path.

  • Lam 1:12
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    12"Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was brought upon me, which the LORD inflicted on the day of his fierce anger.

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    4The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to her appointed festivals. All her gates are desolate; her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she is in bitter anguish.

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    6We all, like sheep, have gone astray; each of us has turned to our own way, and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

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    3We have become orphans, without a father; our mothers are like widows.

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    24We have heard the report about them, and our hands hang limp. Anguish has gripped us, pain like that of a woman in labor.

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    18The LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against his word. Listen, all you peoples; look at my suffering. My young women and my young men have gone into captivity.

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    4We have become an object of scorn to our neighbors, mocked and ridiculed by those around us.