Isaiah 59:11
Modern Translations
New International Version
We all growl like bears; we moan mournfully like doves. We look for justice, but find none; for deliverance, but it is far away.

New Living Translation
We growl like hungry bears; we moan like mournful doves. We look for justice, but it never comes. We look for rescue, but it is far away from us.

English Standard Version
We all growl like bears; we moan and moan like doves; we hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

Berean Study Bible
We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but find none, for salvation, but it is far from us.

New American Standard Bible
All of us growl like bears, And moan sadly like doves; We hope for justice, but there is none; For salvation, but it is far from us.

NASB 1995
All of us growl like bears, And moan sadly like doves; We hope for justice, but there is none, For salvation, but it is far from us.

NASB 1977
All of us growl like bears, And moan sadly like doves; We hope for justice, but there is none, For salvation, but it is far from us.

Amplified Bible
We all groan and growl like bears, And coo sadly like doves; We hope for justice, but there is none, For salvation, but it is far from us.

Christian Standard Bible
We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
We all growl like bears and moan like doves. We hope for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

Contemporary English Version
We growl like bears and mourn like doves. We hope for justice and victory, but they escape us.

Good News Translation
We are frightened and distressed. We long for God to save us from oppression and wrong, but nothing happens.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
We all growl like bears. We coo like doves. We hope for justice, but there is none. We hope for salvation, but it's far from us.

International Standard Version
We all growl like bears; we sigh mournfully like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, and for deliverance, but it's far from us.

NET Bible
We all growl like bears, we coo mournfully like doves; we wait for deliverance, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far from us.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
We all growl like bears, And moan sadly like doves; We look for justice, but there is none; For salvation, but it is far from us.

King James 2000 Bible
We all growl like bears, and mourn greatly like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

New Heart English Bible
We roar all like bears, and moan bitterly like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

World English Bible
We roar all like bears, and moan bitterly like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

American King James Version
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.

American Standard Version
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.

A Faithful Version
We all roar like bears, and mourn grievously like doves; we look for justice, but there is none, we look for salvation, yet it is far from us;

Darby Bible Translation
We roar all like bears, and mourn grievously like doves: we look for judgment, and there is none; for salvation, [but] it is far from us.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
We all roar like bears, and mourn bitterly like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
We roare all like beares, and mourne like dooues: wee looke for equitie, but there is none: for health, but it is farre from vs.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
We roare all like beares, and mourne still like doues: we looke for equitie, but there is none: for health, but it is farre from vs.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
We roare all like Beeres, & mourne stil like doues. We loke for equite, but there is none: for health, but it is farre fro vs.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
We make a noise as bears—all of us, "" And we coo severely as doves; We wait for judgment, and there is none, "" For salvation—it has been far from us.

Young's Literal Translation
We make a noise as bears -- all of us, And as doves we coo sorely; We wait for judgment, and there is none, For salvation -- it hath been far from us.

Smith's Literal Translation
We shall growl as bears all of us, and murmuring we shall murmur as doves: we shall wait for judgment, and none; for salvation, it was far from us.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Catholic Public Domain Version
We will all roar like bears, and we will sigh like despondent doves. We hoped for judgment, and there is none; for salvation, and it is far from us.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
We roar, all of us, like bears, and we moan like doves. We wait for justice, and there is none, and for redemption, and it is far from us

Lamsa Bible
We all roar like bears, and mourn sore like doves; we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
We all growl like bears, And mourn sore like doves; We look for right, but there is none; For salvation, but it is far off from us.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
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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