Isaiah 59:11
We all roar like bears, and moan greatly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.
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Job 30:28I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
Psalms 38:8I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned because of the disquietness of my heart.
Psalms 119:150They draw near who follow after wickedness. They are far from thy law.
Isaiah 38:14Like a swallow [or] a crane, so I chattered. I moaned as a dove. My eyes fail [with looking] upward. O LORD, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.
Isaiah 59:9Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us. We look for light, but, behold, darkness, for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
Jeremiah 9:1Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 59:10-16
The Prevalence and Effects of Sin. ( b. c. 706.) 9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. 10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men. 11 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. 12 For our transgressions… Read the whole commentary →