Isaiah 59:8

The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein doth not know peace.

American Standard Version

In The King James Version

The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

In Context

7Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.

9Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

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Cross References

Psalms 58:1Do ye indeed in silence speak righteousness? Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?

Proverbs 2:13Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;

Proverbs 3:17Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace.

Proverbs 28:18Whoso walketh uprightly shall be delivered; But he that is perverse in [his] ways shall fall at once.

Isaiah 48:22There is no peace, saith Jehovah, to the wicked.

Isaiah 59:14And justice is turned away backward, and righteousness standeth afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 59:2-9

The Prevalence and Effects of Sin. ( b. c. 706.) 1 Behold, the Lord 's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: 2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. 4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak… Read the whole commentary →

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