Isaiah 59:11

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 Duhm hesitatingly suggests, that captive animals, pining for liberty, are meant. But this is not indicated.

On the "mourning" of the dove, cf. ch. Isaiah 38:14; Ezekiel 7:16; Nahum 2:7; and see Davidson's Ezekiel(Cambridge Bible), p. 49.

we look for judgment, &c. returning to the thought of Isaiah 59:9.

12 15a. Confession of the sins previously denounced, the prophet speaking in the name of the people.