Isaiah 59:7

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

They are eager to do evil, quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; they crush and destroy.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 1:16 : 16 for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten 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 human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly.
  • Rom 3:15-17 : 15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood, 16 ruin and misery are in their paths, 17 and the way of peace they have not known.”
  • Rev 17:6 : 6 I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of those who testified to Jesus. I was greatly astounded when I saw her.
  • Acts 8:20-22 : 20 But Peter said to him,“May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could acquire God’s gift with money! 21 You have no share or part in this matter because your heart is not right before God! 22 Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that he may perhaps forgive you for the intent of your heart.
  • Prov 15:26 : 26 The LORD abhors the plans of the wicked, but pleasant words are pure.
  • Prov 24:9 : 9 A foolish scheme is sin, and the scorner is an abomination to people.
  • Isa 59:3 : 3 For your hands are stained with blood and your fingers with sin; your lips speak lies, your tongue utters malicious words.
  • Isa 60:18 : 18 Sounds of violence will no longer be heard in your land, or the sounds of destruction and devastation within your borders. You will name your walls,‘Deliverance,’ and your gates,‘Praise.’
  • Jer 22:17 : 17 But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression.
  • Lam 4:13 : 13 מ(Mem) But it happened due to the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who poured out in her midst the blood of the righteous.
  • Ezek 9:9 : 9 He said to me,“The sin of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of murder, and the city is full of corruption, for they say,‘The LORD has abandoned the land, and the LORD does not see!’
  • Ezek 22:6 : 6 “‘See how each of the princes of Israel living within you has used his authority to shed blood.
  • Matt 23:31-37 : 31 By saying this you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Fill up then the measure of your ancestors! 33 You snakes, you offspring of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? 34 “For this reason I am sending you prophets and wise men and experts in the law, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town, 35 so that on you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 I tell you the truth, this generation will be held responsible for all these things! 37 Judgment on Israel“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!

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  • Prov 1:15-18
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    88%

    15My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path;

    16for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood.

    17Surely it is futile to spread a net in plain sight of any bird,

    18but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives!

  • Rom 3:15-17
    3 verses
    86%

    15“Their feet are swift to shed blood,

    16ruin and misery are in their paths,

    17and the way of peace they have not known.”

  • Isa 59:8
    84%

    8They are unfamiliar with peace; their deeds are unjust. They use deceitful methods, and whoever deals with them is unfamiliar with peace.

  • Isa 59:6
    80%

    6Their webs cannot be used for clothing; they cannot cover themselves with what they make. Their deeds are sinful; they commit violent crimes.

  • Prov 6:17-18
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    17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

    18a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift to run to evil,

  • Isa 59:3-4
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    76%

    3For your hands are stained with blood and your fingers with sin; your lips speak lies, your tongue utters malicious words.

    4No one is concerned about justice; no one sets forth his case truthfully. They depend on false words and tell lies; they conceive of oppression and give birth to sin.

  • Ps 58:2
    76%

    2No! You plan how to do what is unjust; you deal out violence in the earth.

  • Prov 24:2
    76%

    2for their hearts contemplate violence, and their lips speak harm.

  • Mic 7:3
    75%

    3They are experts at doing evil; government officials and judges take bribes, prominent men announce what they wish and then they plan it out.

  • Isa 3:9
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    9The look on their faces testifies to their guilt; like the people of Sodom they openly boast of their sin. Woe to them! For they bring disaster on themselves.

  • Mic 2:1
    75%

    1Land Robbers Will Lose Their Land Beware wicked schemers, those who devise calamity as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so.

  • Prov 4:16-17
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    74%

    16For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.

    17Indeed they have eaten bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.

  • Prov 2:13-15
    3 verses
    74%

    13who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways,

    14who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil;

    15whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;

  • Prov 1:11
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    11If they say,“Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.

  • Ps 64:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5They encourage one another to carry out their evil deed. They plan how to hide snares, and boast,“Who will see them?”

    6They devise unjust schemes; they disguise a well-conceived plot. Man’s inner thoughts cannot be discovered.

  • Ps 140:2
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    2who plan ways to harm me. All day long they stir up conflict.

  • Ps 94:21
    72%

    21They conspire against the blameless, and condemn to death the innocent.

  • Ps 55:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10Day and night they walk around on its walls, while wickedness and destruction are within it.

    11Disaster is within it; violence and deceit do not depart from its public square.

  • Ps 69:27
    72%

    27Hold them accountable for all their sins! Do not vindicate them!

  • Hos 7:2
    72%

    2They do not realize that I remember all of their wicked deeds. Their evil deeds have now surrounded them; their sinful deeds are always before me.

  • Jer 22:17
    72%

    17But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression.

  • Prov 21:7
    72%

    7The violence done by the wicked will drag them away because they have refused to do what is right.

  • Hos 4:8
    72%

    8They feed on the sin offerings of my people; their appetites long for their iniquity!

  • Ps 21:11
    71%

    11Yes, they intend to do you harm; they dream up a scheme, but they do not succeed.

  • Job 15:35
    71%

    35They conceive trouble and bring forth evil; their belly prepares deception.”

  • Lam 4:14
    71%

    14נ(Nun) They wander blindly through the streets, defiled by the blood they shed, while no one dares to touch their garments.

  • Ps 5:10
    71%

    10Condemn them, O God! May their own schemes be their downfall! Drive them away because of their many acts of insurrection, for they have rebelled against you.

  • Jer 9:3
    71%

    3The Lord Laments That He Has No Choice But to Judge Them The LORD says,“These people are like soldiers who have readied their bows. Their tongues are always ready to shoot out lies. They have become powerful in the land, but they have not done so by honest means. Indeed, they do one evil thing after another and do not pay attention to me.

  • Ezek 11:21
    71%

    21But those whose hearts are devoted to detestable things and abominations, I hereby repay them for what they have done, says the Sovereign LORD.”

  • Hos 6:8
    71%

    8Gilead is a city full of evildoers; its streets are stained with bloody footprints!

  • Prov 10:29
    71%

    29The way of the LORD is like a stronghold for the upright, but it is destruction to evildoers.

  • Ps 37:14
    71%

    14Evil men draw their swords and prepare their bows, to bring down the oppressed and needy, and to slaughter those who are godly.

  • Nah 1:11
    71%

    11From you, O Nineveh, one has marched forth who plots evil against the LORD, a wicked military strategist.

  • Ps 9:15
    71%

    15The nations fell into the pit they had made; their feet were caught in the net they had hidden.

  • Hos 4:2
    71%

    2There is only cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery. They resort to violence and bloodshed.

  • Ps 56:6
    71%

    6They stalk and lurk; they watch my every step, as they prepare to take my life.

  • Ps 59:12
    71%

    12They speak sinful words. So let them be trapped by their own pride and by the curses and lies they speak!

  • Prov 12:5
    71%

    5The plans of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.