Isaiah 59:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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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.

Isaiah 59:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 6:17
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Romans 3:15-17
Their feet are swift to shed blood: …
Mark 7:21-22
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, …
Proverbs 1:16
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Proverbs 15:26
The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.

Topics

Anger Avenger of Blood Commandments Crime Cruelty Depravity of Man Fratricide Guilt

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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. feet--All their members are active in evil; in Is 59:3, the “hands, fingers, lips, and tongue,” are specified. run ... haste--(Ro 3:15). Contrast David’s “running and hasting” in the ways of God (Psa 119:32, 60). thoughts--not merely their acts, but their whole thoughts.