King James Version
Isaiah 59:11 in the King James Version says “We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far...” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 59 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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.”
Isaiah 59:11 · KJV
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.
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.
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.
For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“We roar”
H1993to make a loud sound (like english 'hum'); by implication, to be in great commotion or tumult, to rage, war, moan, clamor
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“we look”
H6960to bind together (perhaps by twisting), i.e., collect; (figuratively) to expect
“for judgment”
H4941properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, ind
“but there is none for salvation”
H3444something saved, i.e., (abstractly) deliverance; hence, aid, victory, prosperity
“but it is far off”
H7368to widen (in any direction), i.e., (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation)
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