Isaiah 59:7

World English Bible (2000)

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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  • Prov 1:16 : 16 for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.
  • Prov 6:17 : 17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;
  • Mark 7:21-22 : 21 For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, 22 covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.
  • Rom 3:15-17 : 15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood. 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways. 17 The way of peace, they haven't known."
  • Rev 17:6 : 6 I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.
  • Acts 8:20-22 : 20 But Peter said to him, "May your silver perish with you, because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money! 21 You have neither part nor lot in this matter, for your heart isn't right before God. 22 Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
  • Prov 15:26 : 26 Yahweh detests the thoughts of the wicked, but the thoughts of the pure are pleasing.
  • Prov 24:9 : 9 The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.
  • Isa 59:3 : 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.
  • Isa 60:18 : 18 Violence shall no more be heard in your land, desolation nor destruction within your borders; but you shall call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.
  • Jer 22:17 : 17 But your eyes and your heart are not but for your 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 he said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perversion: for they say, Yahweh has forsaken the land, and Yahweh doesn't see.
  • Ezek 22:6 : 6 Behold, the princes of Israel, everyone according to his power, have been in you to shed blood.
  • Matt 23:31-37 : 31 Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets. 32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers. 33 You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna? 34 Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city; 35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar. 36 Most certainly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation. 37 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!

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  • Prov 1:15-18
    4 verses
    88%

    15 My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,

    16 for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

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

    18 but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

  • Rom 3:15-17
    3 verses
    86%

    15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood.

    16 Destruction and misery are in their ways.

    17 The way of peace, they haven't known."

  • 8 The way of peace they don't know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace.

  • 6 Their 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
    2 verses
    80%

    17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;

    18 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

  • Isa 59:3-4
    2 verses
    76%

    3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue mutters wickedness.

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

  • 2 No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.

  • 2 for their hearts plot violence, and their lips talk about mischief.

  • 3 Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

  • 9 The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don't hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

  • 1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

  • Prov 4:16-17
    2 verses
    74%

    16 For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

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

  • Prov 2:13-15
    3 verses
    74%

    13 who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

    14 who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;

    15 who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:

  • 11 If they say, "Come with us, Let's lay in wait for blood; let's lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

  • Ps 64:5-6
    2 verses
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    5 They encourage themselves in evil plans. They talk about laying snares secretly. They say, "Who will see them?"

    6 They plot injustice, saying, "We have made a perfect plan!" Surely man's mind and heart are cunning.

  • 2 those who devise mischief in their hearts. They continually gather themselves together for war.

  • 21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

  • Ps 55:10-11
    2 verses
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    10 Day and night they prowl around on its walls. Malice and abuse are also within her.

    11 Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don't depart from her streets.

  • 27 Charge them with crime upon crime. Don't let them come into your righteousness.

  • 2 They don't consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.

  • 17 But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

  • 7 The violence of the wicked will drive them away, because they refuse to do what is right.

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

  • 11 For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.

  • 35 They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit."

  • 14 They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men can't touch their garments.

  • 10 Hold them guilty, God. Let them fall by their own counsels; Thrust them out in the multitude of their transgressions, for they have rebelled against you.

  • 3 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 don't know me, says Yahweh.

  • 21 But as for them whose heart walks after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will bring their way on their own heads, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • 8 Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; it is stained with blood.

  • 29 The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

  • 14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, to kill those who are upright in the way.

  • 11 There is one gone forth out of you, who devises evil against Yahweh, who counsels wickedness.

  • 15 The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

  • 2 There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

  • 6 They conspire and lurk, watching my steps, they are eager to take my life.

  • 12 For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

  • 5 The thoughts of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.