Isaiah 59:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

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

Transliteration

Raglêhem to-raʿ yāruṣû and-wîmahărû to-šəppōk dām nāqî maḥšəbôtêhem maḥšəbôt ʾāwen šōd and-šeber in-məsillôtām

Grammar Details

*Raglêhem*: noun, feminine dual construct with 3rd plural suffix - their feet
*raʿ*: noun, masculine singular - evil/wickedness
*yāruṣû*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd plural - they run
*wîmahărû*: verb, piel imperfect, 3rd plural with waw consecutive - they hasten/hurry
*šəppōk*: verb, qal infinitive construct - to pour out/shed
*dām*: noun, masculine singular - blood
*nāqî*: adjective, masculine singular - innocent
*maḥšəbôtêhem*: noun, feminine plural construct with 3rd plural suffix - their thoughts
*maḥšəbôt*: noun, feminine plural construct - thoughts of
*ʾāwen*: noun, masculine singular - iniquity/wickedness
*šōd*: noun, masculine singular - violence/destruction
*šeber*: noun, masculine singular - ruin/breaking
*məsillôtām*: noun, feminine plural construct with 3rd plural suffix - their highways/paths

Word Meanings

*raʿ*: evil/wickedness/harm
*yāruṣû*: run/rush
*wîmahărû*: hasten/hurry/make haste
*šəppōk*: to pour out/shed
*dām*: blood/bloodshed
*nāqî*: innocent/free from guilt
*maḥšəbôt*: thoughts/plans/devices
*ʾāwen*: iniquity/wickedness/trouble
*šōd*: violence/destruction/devastation
*šeber*: ruin/breaking/fracture
*məsillôtām*: their highways/paths/roads

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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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 {G1519} 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!

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