Isaiah 59:11
Old Testament • 12 words with Strong's data
"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."
Word-by-Word Analysis
דָּמָה
dâmâh
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
זָרַע
zâraʻ
to sow; figuratively, to disseminate, plant, fructify
סָפַד
çâphad
properly, to tear the hair and beat the breasts (as Orientals do in grief); generally to lament; by implication, to wail
מְאֹד
mᵉʼôd
properly, vehemence, i.e. (with or without preposition) vehemently; by implication, wholly, speedily, etc. (often with other words as an intensive or ...
דָּמָה
dâmâh
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
יוֹנָה
yôwnâh
a dove (apparently from the warmth of their mating)
רָאָה
râʼâh
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
מִשְׁפָּט
mishpâṭ
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, ind...
אִישׁ
ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
יְשׁוּעָה
yᵉshûwʻâh
something saved, i.e. (abstractly) deliverance; hence, aid, victory, prosperity
רָחַק
râchaq
to widen (in any direction), i.e. (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation)
Key Terms in This Verse
סָפַד çâphad
properly, to tear the hair and beat the breasts (as Orientals do in grief); generally to lament; by implication, to wail
Study H5594 →מְאֹד mᵉʼôd
properly, vehemence, i.e. (with or without preposition) vehemently; by implication, wholly, speedily, etc. (often with other words as an intensive or superlative; especially when repeated)
Study H3966 →רָאָה râʼâh
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
Study H7200 →יְשׁוּעָה yᵉshûwʻâh
something saved, i.e. (abstractly) deliverance; hence, aid, victory, prosperity
Study H3444 →רָחַק râchaq
to widen (in any direction), i.e. (intransitively) recede or (transitively) remove (literally or figuratively, of place or relation)
Study H7368 →מִשְׁפָּט mishpâṭ
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the pla...
Study H4941 →אִישׁ ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
Study H376 →Cross References
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.
Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.
Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.
We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!
Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
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.
And they have not cried unto me with their heart, when they howled upon their beds: they assemble themselves for corn and wine, and they rebel against me.
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