Isaiah 59:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 1:16 : 16 For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.
  • Prov 6:17 : 17 Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause;
  • Mark 7:21-22 : 21 Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures, 22 The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts:
  • Rom 3:15-17 : 15 Their feet are quick in running after blood; 16 Destruction and trouble are in their ways; 17 And of the way of peace they have no knowledge:
  • Rev 17:6 : 6 And I saw the woman overcome as with the wine of the blood of the saints, and the blood of those put to death because of Jesus. And when I saw her, I was overcome with a great wonder.
  • Acts 8:20-22 : 20 But Peter said, May your money come to destruction with you, because you had the idea that what is freely given by God may be got for a price. 21 You have no part in this business, because your heart is not right before God. 22 Let your heart be changed, and make prayer to God that you may have forgiveness for your evil thoughts.
  • Prov 15:26 : 26 Evil designs are disgusting to the Lord, but the words of the clean-hearted are pleasing.
  • Prov 24:9 : 9 The purpose of the foolish is sin: and the hater of authority is disgusting to others.
  • Isa 59:3 : 3 For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.
  • Isa 60:18 : 18 Violent acts will no longer be seen in your land, wasting or destruction in your limits; but your walls will be named, Salvation, and your doors Praise.
  • Jer 22:17 : 17 But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.
  • Lam 4:13 : 13 It is because of the sins of her prophets and the evil-doing of her priests, by whom the blood of the upright has been drained out in her.
  • Ezek 9:9 : 9 Then he said to me, The sin of the children of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is full of blood and the town full of evil ways: for they say, The Lord has gone away from the land, and the Lord does not see.
  • Ezek 22:6 : 6 See, the rulers of Israel, every one in his family, have been causing death in you.
  • Matt 23:31-37 : 31 So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death. 32 Make full, then, the measure of your fathers. 33 You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell? 34 For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town; 35 So that on you may come all the blood of the upright on the earth, from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom you put to death between the Temple and the altar. 36 Truly I say to you, All these things will come on this generation. 37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 1:15-18
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    88%

    15My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

    16For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

    17Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird:

    18And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.

  • Rom 3:15-17
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    86%

    15Their feet are quick in running after blood;

    16Destruction and trouble are in their ways;

    17And of the way of peace they have no knowledge:

  • Isa 59:8
    84%

    8They have no knowledge of the way of peace, and there is no sense of what is right in their behaviour: they have made for themselves ways which are not straight; whoever goes in them has no knowledge of peace.

  • Isa 59:6
    80%

    6Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.

  • Prov 6:17-18
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    17Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause;

    18A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin;

  • Isa 59:3-4
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    3For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.

    4No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.

  • Ps 58:2
    76%

    2The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.

  • Prov 24:2
    76%

    2For the purposes of their hearts are destruction, and their lips are talking of trouble.

  • Mic 7:3
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    3Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.

  • Isa 3:9
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    9Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.

  • Mic 2:1
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    1A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

  • Prov 4:16-17
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    74%

    16For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

    17The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.

  • Prov 2:13-15
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    13Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;

    14Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;

    15Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:

  • Prov 1:11
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    11If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;

  • Ps 64:5-6
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    5They make themselves strong in an evil purpose; they make holes for secret nets; they say, Who will see it,

    6Or make discovery of our secret purpose? The design is framed with care; and the inner thought of a man, and his heart, is deep.

  • Ps 140:2
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    2For their hearts are full of evil designs; and they are ever making ready causes of war.

  • Ps 94:21
    72%

    21They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.

  • Ps 55:10-11
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    10By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.

    11Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.

  • Ps 69:27
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    27Let their punishment be increased; let them not come into your righteousness.

  • Hos 7:2
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    2And they do not say to themselves that I keep in mind all their sin; now their evil acts come round them on every side; they are before my face.

  • Jer 22:17
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    17But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.

  • Prov 21:7
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    7By their violent acts the evil-doers will be pulled away, because they have no desire to do what is right.

  • Hos 4:8
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    8The sin of my people is like food to them; and their desire is for their wrongdoing.

  • Ps 21:11
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    11For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.

  • Job 15:35
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    35Evil has made them with child, and they give birth to trouble; and the fruit of their body is shame for themselves.

  • Lam 4:14
    71%

    14They are wandering like blind men in the streets, they are made unclean with blood, so that their robes may not be touched by men.

  • Ps 5:10
    71%

    10Send them to destruction, O Lord; let their evil designs be the cause of their fall; let them be forced out by all their sins; because they have gone against your authority.

  • Jer 9:3
    71%

    3Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.

  • Ezek 11:21
    71%

    21But as for those whose heart goes after their hated and disgusting things, I will send on their heads the punishment of their ways, says the Lord.

  • Hos 6:8
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    8Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood.

  • Prov 10:29
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    29The way of the Lord is a strong tower for the upright man, but destruction to the workers of evil.

  • Ps 37:14
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    14The evil-doers have taken out their swords, their bows are bent; for crushing the poor, and to put to death those who are upright in their ways.

  • Nah 1:11
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    11One has gone out from you who is designing evil against the Lord, whose purposes are of no value.

  • Ps 9:15
    71%

    15The nations have gone down into the hole which they made: in their secret net is their foot taken.

  • Hos 4:2
    71%

    2There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.

  • Ps 56:6
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    6They come together, they are waiting in secret places, they take note of my steps, they are waiting for my soul.

  • Ps 59:12
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    12Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,

  • Prov 12:5
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    5The purposes of upright men are right, but the designs of evil-doers are deceit.