Isaiah 59:7

Their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed innocent blood, Their thoughts [are] thoughts of iniquity, Spoiling and destruction [are] in their highways.

Young's Literal Translation

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 become not a garment, Nor do they cover themselves with their works, Their works [are] works of iniquity, And a deed of violence [is] in their hands.

8A way of peace they have not known, And there is no judgment in their paths, Their paths they have made perverse for themselves, No treader in it hath known peace.

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Cross References

Proverbs 1:16For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.

Proverbs 15:26An abomination to Jehovah [are] thoughts of wickedness, And pure [are] sayings of pleasantness.

Isaiah 59:3For your hands have been polluted with blood, And your fingers with iniquity, Your lips have spoken falsehood, Your tongue perverseness doth mutter.

Isaiah 65:2I have spread out My hands all the day Unto an apostate people, Who are going in the way not good after their own thoughts.

Lamentations 4:13Because of the sins of her prophets, The iniquities of her priests, Who are shedding in her midst the blood of the righteous,

Ezekiel 22:6Lo, princes of Israel — each according to his arm Have been in thee to 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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