7Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
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A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Their feet are swift to shed blood: …
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, …
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-8)The prophet here rectifies the mistake of those who had been quarrelling with God because they had not the deliverances wrought for them which they had been often fasting and praying for, Isa. 58:3. Now here he shows, I. That it was not owing to God. They had no reason to lay the fault upon him that they were not saved out of the hands of their enemies; for, 1. He was still as able to help as ever…
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