Isaiah 59:7

And their feet run to wickedness, swift to shed blood; their thoughts also are thoughts of murder; destruction and misery are in their ways;

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

6Their web shall not become a garment, nor shall they at all clothe themselves with their works; for their works are works of iniquity.

8and the way of peace they know not, neither is there judgment in their ways; for their paths by which they go are crooked, and they know not peace.

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Cross References

Proverbs 15:26An unrighteous thought is abomination to the Lord; 1 But the sayings of the pure are held in honor. 1

Isaiah 59:3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with sins; your lips also have spoken iniquity, and your tongue meditates unrighteousness.

Isaiah 65:2I have stretched forth my hands all day to a disobedient and gainsaying people, to them that walked in a way that was not good, but after their sins.

Lamentations 4:13For the sins of her prophets, 1 And iniquities of her priests, 1 Who shed righteous blood 1 In the midst of her, 1

Ezekiel 22:6Behold, the princes of the house of Israel have conspired in thee each one with his kindred, that they might shed blood.

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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