Ecclesiasticus 59:11

Nova Vulgata

Rugimus quasi ursi omnes et quasi columbae gementes gemimus; exspectamus iudicium, et non est, salutem, et elongata est a nobis.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Rugiemus quasi ursi omnes, et quasi columbæ meditantes gememus : exspectavimus judicium, et non est ; salutem, et elongata est a nobis.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Rugiemus quasi ursi omnes,
et quasi columbæ meditantes gememus:
exspectavimus judicium, et non est;
salutem, et elongata est a nobis.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

roar: Isaiah 51:20, Psalms 32:3, Psalms 32:4, Psalms 38:8, Hosea 7:14

mourn: Isaiah 38:14, Job 30:28, Job 30:29, Jeremiah 8:15, Jeremiah 9:1, Ezekiel 7:16

for salvation: Psalms 85:9, Psalms 119:155

Reciprocal: Leviticus 14:22 - two turtle doves Job 3:24 - my roarings Psalms 22:1 - words Jeremiah 30:5 - a voice Lamentations 3:17 - thou Ezekiel 24:23 - and mourn Nahum 2:7 - doves Zephaniah 1:10 - the noise

Gill's Notes on the 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 roars; and the dove, when it has lost its mate, mourns in solitude: this expresses the secret groanings of the saints under a sense of sin, and the forlorn state of religion. The Targum paraphrases it thus,

"we roar because of our enemies, who are gathered against us as bears; all of us indeed mourn sore as doves:''

we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us; we expect that God will take vengeance on our enemies, and save us; look for judgment on antichrist, and the antichristian states, and for the salvation of the church of God; for the vials of divine wrath on the one, and for happy times to the other; but neither of them as yet come; the reason of which is as follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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, German, hummen, spoken of bees), is applied to any murmuring, or confused noise or sound. It sometimes means to snarl, as a dog Psalms 59:7, Psalms 59:15; to coo, as a dove Ezekiel 7:16; it is also applied to waves that roar Psalms 46:4; Isaiah 51:15; to a crowd or tumultuous assemblage Psalms 46:7; and to music Isaiah 16:11; Jeremiah 48:36. Here it is applied to the low growl or groan of a bear. Bochart (Hieroz. i. 3. 9), says, that a bear produces a melancholy sound; and Horace (Epod. xvi. 51), speaks of its low groan:

Nee vespertinus circumgemit ursus ovile.

Here it is emblematic of mourning, and is designed to denote that they were suffering under heavy and long-continued calamity. Or, according to Gesenius (Commentary in loc.), it refers to a bear which is hungry, and which growls, impatient for food, and refers here to the complaining, dissatisfaction, and murmuring of the people, because God did not come to vindicate and relieve them.

And mourn sore like doves - The cooing of the dove, a plaintive sound, is often used to denote grief (see Ezekiel 7:16; compare the notes at Isaiah 38:14).

We look for judgment ... - (See the notes at Isaiah 59:9.)

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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 in their copies; ורחקה verachakah, "and far off."