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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Isaiah 59:11

Mourn — Their oppressing governors made the wicked roar like bears, and the good mourn like doves.

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See also Isaiah 59:11 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 59:11. But _IT IS FAR OFF FROM US _- "And it is far distant from us."] The conjunction ו _vau_ must necessarily be prefixed to the verb, as the _Syriac, Chaldee_, and _Vulgate_ found it i...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WE ROAR ALL LIKE BEARS - This is designed still further to describe the heavy judgments which had come upon them for their sins. The word rendered here ‘roar’ (from המה _hâmâh_, like English, to hum...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 59 Apostasy and Confession, Jehovah's Intervention and the Coming of the Redeemer 1. _The deplorable condition of the people (Isaiah 59:1) _ 2. _The confession (Isaiah 59:9) _ 3. Jehovah's in...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 59:9_ a_. THE PEOPLE CONFESS THAT THEIR PITEOUS PLIGHT IS THE FRUIT OF THEIR WRONGDOING. The poet now joins himself to his people and, speaking in their name, owns the truth of the indictment i...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The sorrow and dejection of the people is depicted in striking and pathetic images. It is the better mind of the community which is here expressed, its intense desire for the fulfilment of the divine...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _We roar_(better GROAN) _all like bears_ Comp. (with Gesenius) Horace, _Epod._16. 51: "Nec vespertinus circumgemit ursus ovile." The comparison would no doubt gain in force if we could suppose, as D...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THEREFORE IS JUDGMENT FAR FROM US— After an enumeration of the grievous sins and offences which deformed the church, the company of the faithful ministers of Jesus Christ, and the remaining true belie...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. THE CONSEQUENCES TEXT: Isaiah 59:9-15 a 9 Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscu...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole 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. WE ROAR ALL LIKE BEARS - We moan plaintively, like a hungry be...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    MOURN] i.e. moan (Isaiah 38:14)....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1, 2. An answer to the implied objection that the promises of restoration have not yet been fulfilled....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 59 WHY GOD DOES NOT ANSWER PRAYERS V1 The *Lord can still save. His pow...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Isaiah’s list of wicked deeds is a great shock to the people. They suddenly recognise that they are guilty of all those actions. Now they can understand why the *Lord is not helping them. But merely t...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WE ROAR ALL LIKE BEARS... — The comparison is not found elsewhere in Scripture, but Horace (_Epp._ xvi. 51) gives “_circumgemit ursus ovile.”_ For the dove, comp. Isaiah 38:14; Ezekiel 7:16....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    נֶהֱמֶ֤ה כַ † דֻּבִּים֙ כֻּלָּ֔נוּ וְ כַ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXIII THE REKINDLING OF THE CIVIC CONSCIENCE Isaiah 56:9; Isaiah 57:1; Isaiah 58:1; Isaiah 59:1 IT was inevitable, as so

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    INIQUITIES SEPARATE FROM GOD Isaiah 59:1-15 _Israel's sins_, Isaiah 59:1-8. Much of our suffering in life results from our sins, which cut off God's health and help. Let us not blame Providence, but...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Continuing, the prophet makes confession of moral failure. This he does first by declaring the reason for national suffering. It is not to be found in Jehovah's inability, nor in His unwillingness. Th...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    We all roar like (i) bears, and mourn bitterly like doves: we look for judgment, but [there is] none; for salvation, [but] it is far from us. (i) We express our sorrows by outward signs, some more an...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Judgment, that God would avenge us, (ver. 9.) and regard our fasts, chap. lviii. 3._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here is a long and sad account of men's revolt and transgression, which fully explains what was said before, as well as accounts for the divine corrections which followed. Men may well wait for the li...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    11._We all roar like bears. _He describes two classes of those who cannot silently endure their afflictions without making them known by external signs; for some howl fiercely, and others _moan like d...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 58 AND 59. But these moral considerations rouse the indignation of the Spirit at the condition of Israel in the days of the prophecy-their sin and their hypoc...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    WE ROAR ALL LIKE BEARS, AND MOURN SORE LIKE DOVES,.... Some in a more noisy and clamorous, others in a stiller way, yet all in private: for the bear, when robbed of its whelps, goes to its den and roa...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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. Ver. 11. _We roar all like bears._] _Fremimus, ac gemimus._ T...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Therefore is judgment far from us_ Because we have no regard for justice or honesty, God will not plead our cause against our oppressors; _neither doth justice overtake us_ He does not defend our rig...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    We roar all like bears, moaning and growling for food, AND MOURN SORE LIKE DOVES, with plaintive calls; WE LOOK FOR JUDGMENT, for the sentence of deliverance, BUT THERE IS NONE, FOR SALVATION, BUT IT...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    INIQUITIES MAKE BLIND AND HELPLESS...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    9-15 If we shut our eyes against the light of Divine truth, it is just with God to hide from our eyes the things that belong to our peace. The sins of those who profess themselves God's people, are wo...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WE ROAR: this signifies the greatness of their anguish, that forced from them these loud outcries. AND MOURN: this notes some sense of their condition, that wrought in them these sorrowful lamentation...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 59:11 growl H1993 (H8799) bears H1677 moan H1897 (H8799) sadly H1897 (H8800) doves H3123 look...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    JUDAH/JACOB IN ITS SIN (ISAIAH 59:1 A). Isaiah 59:1 ‘Behold Yahweh's hand is not shortened that it cannot save, Nor his ear heavy that it cannot hear, But your iniquities have separated between yo...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Sins which prevented the bestowal of God's blessing and caused chastisements to fall upon Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit CONCLUSION: If prayers are not answered and the salva...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 59:1. _Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save._ The failure of your fast is not with the Lord; he sees, and he can hear. Neither is the fault in the promises announced by...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Therefore is judgment far from us_ DEJECTION AND TROUBLE THE OUTCOME OF SIN The sorrow and dejection of the people is depicted in striking and pathetic images. It is the better mind of the communi...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 59:11 WE ALL GROWL LIKE BEARS is a picture of anguish. ⇐ ⇔

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 59:1 A GENERAL REBUKE OF ISRAEL FOR ITS MANIFOLD SINS, The command given to the prophet in Isaiah 58:1 to "show God's people the

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in fifty-nine: Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither is his ear heavy, that it cannot hear (Isaiah 59:1): "Lord, why aren't You hearing us when we fast? Why aren'...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 7:16; Hosea 7:14; Isaiah 38:14; Isaiah 51:20; Jeremiah 8:15;...

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