Isaiah 59:11
They shall proceed together as a bear and as a dove: we have waited for judgment, and there is no salvation, it is gone far from us.
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Job 30:28I went mourning without restraint: 1 And I have stood and cried out in the assembly. 1
Psalms 38:8And now what is my expectation? is it not the Lord? 1 And my ground of hope is with thee. Pause. 1
Isaiah 38:14As a swallow, so will I cry, and as a dove, so do I mourn: for mine eyes have failed with looking to the height of heaven to the Lord, who has delivered me,
Isaiah 59:9Therefore has judgment departed from them, and righteousness shall not overtake them: while they waited for light, darkness came upon them; while they waited for brightness, they walked in perplexity.
Jeremiah 9:1Who would give me a most distant lodge in the wilderness, that I might leave my people, and depart from them? for they all commit adultery, an assembly of treacherous men.
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 →