Isaiah 59:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Their 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.

And they

Revelation 17:6

Their thoughts

Wasting

Isaiah 60:18

Romans 3:16

General references

Romans 3:15

Bible References

And they

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.

But your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your unjust gain, and to shed innocent blood, and for cruelty, and to do violence.

For the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, shedding the blood of the just in her midst,

And He said to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is great, and the land is full of blood, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, Jehovah has forsaken the land; and, Jehovah does not see.

Behold, the rulers of Israel, each man by his might, have been in you in order to shed blood.

Therefore you are witnesses to yourselves, that you are the sons of those who killed the prophets;

And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with a great marveling.

Their thoughts

The thoughts of the wicked are very hateful to Jehovah, but the words of the pure are pleasant words.

The thought of foolishness is sin; and the scorner is hateful to men.

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

But Peter said to him, May your silver perish with you, because you have thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.

Wasting

Violence will no more be heard in your land, wasting nor ruin within your borders; but you will call your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise.

destruction and misery are in their way,

General references

so that innocent blood may not be shed in your land which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance, and blood may not be on you.

for their feet run to evil and make haste to shed blood.

I will declare your righteousness, and your works; for they shall not do you any good.

And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.

"their feet are swift to shed blood;