“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.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Isaiah 59 contains 21 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.