Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 59:11

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 from us ▪

This signifies the greatness of their anguish, that forced from them these loud outeries.

This notes some sense of their condition, that wrought in them these sorrowful Lamentations: Or, it may relate to the condition, that both sorts of people were in under their oppressing Governours. It made the wicked roar like Bears, and the godly mourn like Doves: It is thus expressed because these properties are peculiar to these creatures. The Bear, when robbed, goes into his den and roars: The Dove, when absent from her mate, sits solitary, and mourns.

See the Exposition of this last part of the verse, v. 9.

Marginal references: Ch. 38. 14.