Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, 2 and they hurry to shed innocent blood. 1 Their thoughts are thoughts of vain striving of iniquity. 2 Desolation and destruction are in their paths. 1

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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 webs won’t become garments. 2 They won’t cover themselves with their works. 1 Their works are works of vain striving of iniquity, 2 and acts of violence are in their hands. 1

8They don’t know the way of peace; + 59:8. (7-8) Quoted in Rom 3:15-17 2 and there is no mishpat ·justice· in their ways. 1 They have made crooked paths for themselves; 2 whoever goes in them does not know peace. 1

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Cross References

Proverbs 1:16for their feet run to evil. 2 They hurry to shed blood. + 1:16. Quoted in Rom 3:15 1

Proverbs 15:26Adonai detests the thoughts of the wicked, 2 but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing. 1

Isaiah 59:3For your hands are defiled with blood, 2 and your fingers with depravity (moral evil). 1 Your lips have spoken lies. 2 Your tongue mutters wickedness. 1

Isaiah 65:2+ 65:2. MP: Messiah reaches out to rebellious Israel. (John 5:37-40) I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, + 65:2. Quoted in Rom 10:21 2 who walk in a way that is not good, 2 after their own thoughts; 2 don’t come near to me, 1

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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