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Isaiah 59:11 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" We all roar like bears and moan sadly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us. "
Isaiah 59:11
Verse in Context
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9 Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness doesn’t overtake us. We look for light, but see darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
10 We grope for the wall like the blind. Yes, we grope as those who have no eyes. We stumble at noon as if it were twilight. Among those who are strong, we are like dead men.
11 We all roar like bears and moan sadly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.
12 For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:
13 transgressing and denying the LORD, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
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Isaiah 59:1
"Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear."
Isaiah 59:2
"But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear."
Isaiah 59:3
"For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness."
Isaiah 59:4
"No one sues in righteousness, and no one pleads in truth. They trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity."
Isaiah 59:5
"They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper."
Isaiah 59:6
"Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands."
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