Isaiah 59:7

Isaiah 59:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)Their feet rush into sin; they are swift to shed innocent blood. They pursue evil schemes; acts of violence mark their ways.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their highways.
• New King James Version (NKJV)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.

Context of Isaiah 59:7

5They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. 6Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. 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. 8The 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. 9Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

Isaiah 59:7 word by word

רַגְלֵיהֶם֙ לָרַ֣ע יָרֻ֔צוּ וִֽימַהֲר֔וּ לִשְׁפֹּ֖ךְ דָּ֣ם נָקִ֑י מַחְשְׁבֽוֹתֵיהֶם֙ מַחְשְׁב֣וֹת אָ֔וֶן שֹׁ֥ד וָשֶׁ֖בֶר בִּמְסִלּוֹתָֽם׃Read the interlinear

• Their feetרֶ֫גֶלregel · footH7272
• runרוּץrûts · to run: runH7323
• to evilרַעra‛ râ‛âh · bad: evilH7451
• and they make hasteמָהַרmâhar · to hastenH4116
• to shedשָׁפַךְshâphak · to pour: killH8210
• innocentנָקִיnâqîy nâqîy' · innocentH5355
• bloodדָּםdâm · bloodH1818
• their thoughtsמַחֲשָׁבָהmachăshâbâh machăshebeth · plotH4284
• of iniquityאָ֫וֶן'âven · evil: wickednessH205
• wastingשֹׁדshôd shôd · violenceH7701
• and destructionשֶׁ֫בֶרsheber shêber · breakingH7667
• in their pathsמְסִלָּהmesillâh · highwayH4546

Cross-references for Isaiah 59:7

• Proverbs 1:16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
• Proverbs 6:17A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
• Romans 3:15Their feet are swift to shed blood:
• Isaiah 59:3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
• Jeremiah 22:17But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
• Lamentations 4:13For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
• Ezekiel 9:9Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, Yhwh hath forsaken the earth, And Yhwh seeth not.
• Ezekiel 22:6Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.
• Matthew 23:31Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
• Revelation 17:6And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great astonishment.
• Proverbs 15:26The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to Yhwh: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.
• Proverbs 24:9The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.
• Mark 7:21For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
• Acts 8:20But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
• Isaiah 60:18Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
• Romans 3:16Destruction and misery are in their ways:

Commentaries on Isaiah 59:7

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Their feet run to evil - In accordance with the design of the prophet to show the entireness of their depravity, he states that all their members were employed in doing evil. In Isaiah 59:3-6. he had remarked that depravity had extended to their hands, their fingers, their lips, and their tongue; he here states that their feet also were employed in doing evil. Instead of treading the paths of righteousness, and hastening to execute purposes of mercy and…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7-8Paul quotes these verses when he describes the sinfulness of all people. He shows that everyone has turned away from God and does what is wrong (Romans 3:15–17). ruin and destruction: The people complained that others were treating them unfairly (Isaiah 51:19). They said they were suffering under oppression. But they were also treating other people unfairly. They had become oppressors themselves.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. feet--All their members are active in evil; in Is 59:3, the "hands, fingers, lips, and tongue," are specified. run ... haste--(Ro 3:15). Contrast David's "running and hasting" in the ways of God (Psa 119:32, 60). thoughts--not merely their acts, but their whole thoughts.Read the comment

Topics related to Isaiah 59:7

• Character
• Homicide
• Malice
• Quotations and Allusions
• Sin
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

• Cloke
• Grope
• Heavy
• Iniquity
• Mutter
• Revolt
• Causeway; Causey
• Isaiah
• Saviour
• Servant of Jehovah; Servant of the Lord; Servant of Yahweh

Commentaries on Isaiah 59

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings