Isaiah 59:7

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 1:16 : 16 For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.
  • Prov 6:17 : 17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood;
  • Mark 7:21-22 : 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, 22 covetings, wickednesses, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, railing, pride, foolishness:
  • Rom 3:15-17 : 15 Their feet are swift to shed blood; 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways; 17 And the way of peace have they not known:
  • Rev 17:6 : 6 And 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 a great wonder.
  • Acts 8:20-22 : 20 But Peter said unto him, Thy silver perish with thee, because thou hast thought to obtain the gift of God with money. 21 Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right before God. 22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray the Lord, if perhaps the thought of thy heart shall be forgiven thee.
  • Prov 15:26 : 26 Evil devices are an abomination to Jehovah; But pleasant words [are] pure.
  • Prov 24:9 : 9 The thought of foolishness is sin; And the scoffer is an abomination to men.
  • Isa 59:3 : 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness.
  • Isa 60:18 : 18 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, desolation nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise.
  • Jer 22:17 : 17 But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.
  • Lam 4:13 : 13 [ It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.
  • Ezek 9:9 : 9 Then 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 wresting [of judgment] : for they say, Jehovah hath forsaken the land, and Jehovah seeth not.
  • Ezek 22:6 : 6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one according to his power, have been in thee to shed blood.
  • Matt 23:31-37 : 31 Wherefore ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets. 32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. 33 Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgment of hell? 34 Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them shall ye kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: 35 that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous unto the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar. 36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation. 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth them that are sent unto her! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 1:15-18
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    88%

    15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain thy foot from their path:

    16For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.

    17For in vain is the net spread In the sight of any bird:

    18And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.

  • Rom 3:15-17
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    86%

    15Their feet are swift to shed blood;

    16Destruction and misery are in their ways;

    17And the way of peace have they not known:

  • Isa 59:8
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    8The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein doth not know peace.

  • Isa 59:6
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    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.

  • Prov 6:17-18
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    17Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood;

    18A heart that deviseth wicked purposes, Feet that are swift in running to mischief,

  • Isa 59:3-4
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    3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue muttereth wickedness.

    4None sueth in righteousness, and none pleadeth in truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

  • Ps 58:2
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    2Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

  • Prov 24:2
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    2For their heart studieth oppression, And their lips talk of mischief.

  • Mic 7:3
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    3Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently; the prince asketh, and the judge [is ready] for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth the evil desire of his soul: thus they weave it together.

  • Isa 3:9
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    9The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have done evil unto themselves.

  • Mic 2:1
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    1Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

  • Prov 4:16-17
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    74%

    16For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

    17For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.

  • Prov 2:13-15
    3 verses
    74%

    13Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;

    14Who rejoice to do evil, And delight in the perverseness of evil;

    15Who are crooked in their ways, And wayward in their paths:

  • Prov 1:11
    74%

    11If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;

  • Ps 64:5-6
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    5They encourage themselves in an evil purpose; They commune of laying snares privily; They say, Who will see them?

    6They search out iniquities; We have accomplished, [say they], a diligent search: And the inward thought and the heart of every one is deep.

  • Ps 140:2
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    2Who devise mischiefs in their heart; Continually do they gather themselves together for war.

  • Ps 94:21
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    21They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, And condemn the innocent blood.

  • Ps 55:10-11
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    10Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: Iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it.

    11Wickedness is in the midst thereof: Oppression and guile depart not from its streets.

  • Ps 69:27
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    27Add iniquity unto their iniquity; And let them not come into thy righteousness.

  • Hos 7:2
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    2And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now have their own doings beset them about; they are before my face.

  • Jer 22:17
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    17But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

  • Prov 21:7
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    7The violence of the wicked shall sweep them away, Because they refuse to do justice.

  • Hos 4:8
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    8They feed on the sin of my people, and set their heart on their iniquity.

  • Ps 21:11
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    11For they intended evil against thee; They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.

  • Job 15:35
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    35They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, And their heart prepareth deceit.

  • Lam 4:14
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    14They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men cannot touch their garments.

  • Ps 5:10
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    10Hold them guilty, O God; Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions; For they have rebelled against thee.

  • Jer 9:3
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    3And they bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.

  • Ezek 11:21
    71%

    21But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way upon their own heads, saith the Lord Jehovah.

  • Hos 6:8
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    8Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is stained with blood.

  • Prov 10:29
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    29The way of Jehovah is a stronghold to the upright; But it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

  • Ps 37:14
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    14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, To cast down the poor and needy, To slay such as are upright in the way.

  • Nah 1:11
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    11There is one gone forth out of thee, that deviseth evil against Jehovah, that counselleth wickedness.

  • Ps 9:15
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    15The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

  • Hos 4:2
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    2There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.

  • Ps 56:6
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    6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.

  • Ps 59:12
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    12[ For] the sin of their mouth, [and] the words of their lips, Let them even be taken in their pride, And for cursing and lying which they speak.

  • Prov 12:5
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    5The thoughts of the righteous are just; [But] the counsels of the wicked are deceit.