Isaiah 59:7 “Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their t…”

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

Their 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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Their feete runne to euill, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are wicked thoughts: desolation and destruction is in their paths.

Darby Translation

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;

Young's Literal Translation

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.

Bible in Basic English

Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.

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Cross references

“feet”

Proverbs 6:17 Proverbs 1:16 Romans 3:15

Proverbs 6:17 · BSB

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Proverbs 1:16 · BSB

For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.

Romans 3:15 · BSB

“Their feet are swift to shed blood;

“and they”

Isaiah 59:3 Jeremiah 22:17 Lamentations 4:13 Ezekiel 9:9 Ezekiel 22:6 Revelation 17:6

Isaiah 59:3 · BSB

For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.

Jeremiah 22:17 · BSB

“But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression.”

Lamentations 4:13 · BSB

But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.

Ezekiel 9:9 · BSB

He replied, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken the land; the LORD does not see.’

Ezekiel 22:6 · BSB

See how every prince of Israel within you has used his power to shed blood.

Revelation 17:6 · BSB

I could see that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and witnesses for Jesus. And I was utterly amazed at the sight of her.

“their thoughts”

Proverbs 15:26 Proverbs 24:9 Acts 8:20–22 Mark 7:21 Mark 7:22

Proverbs 15:26 · BSB

The LORD detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the words of the pure are pleasant to Him.

Proverbs 24:9 · BSB

A foolish scheme is sin, and a mocker is detestable to men.

Acts 8:20–22 · BSB

But Peter replied, “May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!

Mark 7:21 · BSB

For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

Mark 7:22 · BSB

greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.

“wasting”

Isaiah 60:18 Romans 3:16

Isaiah 60:18 · BSB

No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.

Romans 3:16 · BSB

ruin and misery lie in their wake,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6Their cobwebs cannot be made into clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are sinful deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands.

8The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace.

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