Isaiah 59:11
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.
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Isaiah 59:11
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.
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Isaiah 38:14
I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.”
Ezekiel 7:16
But of those who escape, they will escape and will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, everyone in his iniquity.
Nahum 2:7
It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her servants moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.
Song of Solomon 2:14
My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places of the mountainside, let me see your face. Let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.
Job 30:28
I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
Job 30:29
I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
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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.
Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.
Isaiah 59:8
They don’t know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.
Isaiah 59:9
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.
Isaiah 59:10
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.
Isaiah 59:11
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.
Isaiah 59:12
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:
Isaiah 59:13
transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
Isaiah 59:14
Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has fallen in the street, and uprightness can’t enter.
Isaiah 59:15
Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.
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Psalms 32:3
When I kept silence, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
Psalms 32:4
For day and night your hand was heavy on me. My strength was sapped in the heat of summer. Selah.
Psalms 38:8
I am faint and severely bruised. I have groaned by reason of the anguish of my heart.
Job 3:24
For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
Psalms 22:1
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, and from the words of my groaning?
Psalms 22:2
My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.
Isaiah 51:20
Your sons have fainted. They lie at the head of all the streets, like an antelope in a net. They are full of Yahweh’s wrath, the rebuke of your God.
Lamentations 3:8
Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.
Hosea 7:14
They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.
Hebrews 5:7
He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
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Jeremiah 8:15
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
Psalms 119:155
Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don’t seek your statutes.
Jeremiah 14:19
Have you utterly rejected Judah? Has your soul loathed Zion? Why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and behold, dismay!
Micah 1:12
For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, because evil has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.
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