Isaiah 59:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

The way of peace they do not know; and there is no justice in their paths: they have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever walks therein shall not know peace.

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  • Luke 1:79 : 79 To give light to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
  • Isa 48:22 : 22 There is no peace, says the LORD, for the wicked.
  • Isa 57:20-21 : 20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. 21 There is no peace, says my God, to the wicked.
  • Isa 59:14-15 : 14 And judgment is turned backward, and justice stands far off: for truth has fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. 15 Yes, truth fails; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
  • Jer 5:1 : 1 Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if you can find a man, if there is anyone who executes judgment, who seeks the truth; and I will pardon it.
  • Hos 4:1-2 : 1 Hear the word of the LORD, you children of Israel, for the LORD has a dispute with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. 2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.
  • Amos 6:1-6 : 1 Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, who are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came! 2 Pass over to Calneh, and see; and from there go to Hamath the great: then go down to Gath of the Philistines: are they better than these kingdoms? Or is their border greater than your border? 3 You who put far away the evil day, and bring near the seat of violence; 4 Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; 5 Who sing to the sound of the harp, and invent for themselves instruments of music, like David; 6 Who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the finest ointments: but are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
  • Matt 23:23 : 23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, justice, mercy, and faith: these you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.
  • Ps 58:1-2 : 1 Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? Do you judge uprightly, O you sons of men? 2 Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
  • Ps 125:5 : 5 But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them away with the workers of iniquity; peace shall be upon Israel.
  • Prov 2:15 : 15 Whose ways are crooked, and who are perverse in their paths:
  • Prov 3:17 : 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
  • Prov 28:18 : 18 Whoever walks uprightly shall be saved, but he who is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
  • Isa 5:7 : 7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, a cry.
  • Rom 3:17 : 17 'And the way of peace they have not known:'

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  • Rom 3:15-17
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    15'Their feet are swift to shed blood:'

    16'Destruction and misery are in their ways:'

    17'And the way of peace they have not known:'

  • Isa 59:6-7
    2 verses
    84%

    6Their webs will not become garments, nor will they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

    7Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their paths.

  • Isa 59:9
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    9Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us: we wait for light, but see obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

  • Prov 4:19
    77%

    19The way of the wicked is like darkness: they do not know at what they stumble.

  • Isa 48:22
    76%

    22There is no peace, says the LORD, for the wicked.

  • Isa 59:4
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    4No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth: they trust in vanity and speak lies; they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.

  • Ps 82:5
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    5They do not know, nor do they understand; they walk in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

  • Job 24:13
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    13They are among those who rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.

  • Prov 2:15
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    15Whose ways are crooked, and who are perverse in their paths:

  • Isa 57:21
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    21There is no peace, says my God, to the wicked.

  • Jer 8:11
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    11For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

  • Isa 59:14-15
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    14And judgment is turned backward, and justice stands far off: for truth has fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

    15Yes, truth fails; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

  • Ezek 7:25
    74%

    25Destruction comes; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none.

  • Ps 125:5
    74%

    5But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them away with the workers of iniquity; peace shall be upon Israel.

  • Prov 1:15-16
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    74%

    15My son, do not walk in the way with them, hold back your foot from their path;

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

  • Job 6:18
    74%

    18The paths of their way turn aside; they go to nothing and perish.

  • Jer 6:14
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    14They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

  • Jer 5:4
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    4Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they do not know the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God.

  • Prov 2:13
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    13Who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness;

  • Jer 9:3
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    3And they bend their tongues like a bow for lies; but they are not valiant for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the LORD.

  • Amos 3:10
    73%

    10For they know not to do right, says the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

  • Ps 119:3
    73%

    3They also do no iniquity; they walk in His ways.

  • Hos 14:9
    73%

    9Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.

  • Ps 35:20
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    20For they speak not peace; but they devise deceitful matters against those who are quiet in the land.

  • Ps 55:10-11
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    10Day and night they go about it upon its walls; mischief and sorrow are in the midst of it.

    11Wickedness is in the midst of it; deceit and guile do not depart from its streets.

  • Isa 3:9
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    9The look on their faces testifies against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

  • Rom 3:12
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    12'They have all turned aside; they have together become unprofitable; there is none who does good, no, not one.'

  • Jer 9:6
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    6Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says the LORD.

  • Prov 28:5
    72%

    5Evil people do not understand judgment, but those who seek the LORD understand all things.

  • Ps 28:3
    72%

    3Do not draw me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

  • Jer 18:12
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    12And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own plans, and we will everyone do the imagination of his evil heart.

  • Prov 4:16
    71%

    16For they do not sleep unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

  • Job 30:13
    71%

    13They mar my path, they advance my calamity, they have no helper.

  • Prov 4:14
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    14Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evil men.

  • Prov 21:8
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    8The way of the guilty is crooked and strange, but as for the pure, his work is right.

  • Hab 1:4
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    4Therefore the law is powerless, and justice never goes forth, for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore perverse judgment proceeds.

  • Ezek 33:17
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    17Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not fair: but it is their way that is not fair.

  • Jer 23:12
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    12Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall in it; for I will bring disaster upon them, the year of their punishment, says the LORD.

  • Isa 33:8
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    8The highways lie desolate, the traveler ceases; he has broken the covenant, he has despised the cities, he regards no man.

  • Jer 4:22
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    22For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are senseless children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

  • Jer 8:15
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    15We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold, trouble!

  • Ps 69:27
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    27Add iniquity to their iniquity, and let them not come into your righteousness.

  • Isa 59:12
    71%

    12For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;

  • Ps 1:6
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    6For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.