Isaiah 59:11
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.
Cross-reference
In Isaiah 38:14, Hezekiah uses the same dove-moaning metaphor in his distress — a direct verbal parallel.
In Job 30:29, Job uses animal comparisons (jackals, owls) like the bear and dove here — both express misery through animal metaphors.
In Psalm 38:8, the psalmist's groaning of anguish directly parallels the dovelike moaning here — both lament deep distress.
Psalm 119:155 also says salvation is far from the wicked — here the people lament that salvation is far, linking the theme of distance from salvation.
In Jeremiah 8:15, the same pattern of hoping for peace but finding terror mirrors the search for justice yielding nothing here.
In Ezekiel 7:16, fugitives moan like doves for their sins — a direct parallel to the dove-moaning lament here.
Psalm 22:1 cries out about God being far from saving and words of groaning — very similar to Isaiah's lament of distant salvation and moaning.
Lamentations 3:17 says peace is removed and happiness forgotten — parallels Isaiah's failure to find justice and salvation, both expressing desolation.