Isaiah 59:8

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Luke 1:79 : 79 to shine on 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 Yahweh, "for the wicked."
  • Isa 57:20-21 : 20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can't rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt. 21 "There is no peace," says my God, "for the wicked."
  • Isa 59:14-15 : 14 Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can't enter. 15 Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.
  • Jer 5:1 : 1 "Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.
  • Hos 4:1-2 : 1 Hear the word of Yahweh, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land. 2 There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
  • Amos 6:1-6 : 1 Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and to those who are secure on the mountain of Samaria, the notable men of the chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel come! 2 Go 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 Those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near; 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 strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David; 6 who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
  • Matt 23:23 : 23 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
  • Ps 58:1-2 : 1 Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men? 2 No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.
  • Ps 125:5 : 5 But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel. A Song of Ascents.
  • Prov 2:15 : 15 who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:
  • Prov 3:17 : 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.
  • Prov 28:18 : 18 Whoever walks blamelessly is kept safe; but one with perverse ways will fall suddenly.
  • Isa 5:7 : 7 For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
  • Rom 3:17 : 17 The way of peace, they haven't known."

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    15"Their feet are swift to shed blood.

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    6Their 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.

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    9Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

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    19The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.

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    22"There is no peace," says Yahweh, "for the wicked."

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    5They don't know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

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    13"These are of those who rebel against the light. They don't know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

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

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    21"There is no peace," says my God, "for the wicked."

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    11They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

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    14Justice is turned away backward, and righteousness stands afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness can't enter.

    15Yes, truth is lacking; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Yahweh saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

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

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    5But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel. A Song of Ascents.

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

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

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    18The caravans that travel beside them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.

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    4Then I said, "Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God.

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

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    3They 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.

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    10"Indeed they don't know to do right," says Yahweh, "Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces."

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    3Yes, they do nothing wrong. They walk in his ways.

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    9Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.

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    6Your habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, says Yahweh.

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    17Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.

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    22"For my people are foolish, they don't know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."

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

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    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:

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    6For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.