Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
The way of peace they knew not, and no judgment in their paths: they perverted their beaten paths for themselves: every one treading in it shall not know peace.
New American Standard Bible
And there is
They have made their paths crooked,
King James Version
The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
Holman Bible
and there is no justice in their ways.
They have made their roads crooked;
no one who walks on them will know peace.
International Standard Version
The pathway of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their courses. They have made their roads crooked; no one who walks in them will know peace."
A Conservative Version
They do not know the way of peace, and there is no justice in their goings. They have made them crooked paths. Whoever goes in it does not know peace.
American Standard Version
The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whosoever goeth therein doth not know peace.
Amplified
They do not know the way of peace,
And there is no justice in their tracks.
They have made them into crooked paths;
Whoever walks on them does not know peace.
Bible in Basic English
They have no knowledge of the way of peace, and there is no sense of what is right in their behaviour: they have made for themselves ways which are not straight; whoever goes in them has no knowledge of peace.
Darby Translation
the way of peace they know not, and there is no judgment in their goings; they have made their paths crooked: whoso goeth therein knoweth not peace.
King James 2000
The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice in their paths: they have made themselves crooked paths: whosoever goes in them shall not know peace.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They do not know [the] way of peace, and there is no justice in their firm paths. They have made their paths crooked for themselves; everyone {who walks} in it knows no peace.
Modern King James verseion
They did not know the way of peace, and there is no judgment in their paths. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them shall not know peace.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But the way of peace they know not. In their goings is no equity, their ways are so crooked that whosoever goeth therein, knoweth nothing of peace.
NET Bible
They are unfamiliar with peace; their deeds are unjust. They use deceitful methods, and whoever deals with them is unfamiliar with peace.
New Heart English Bible
The way of peace they do not know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace.
The Emphasized Bible
the way of well-being, have they not known, And there is no justice in their tracks, - Their paths, have they made crooked for themselves, None who treadeth therein knoweth well - being.
Webster
The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
World English Bible
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
A way of peace they have not known, And there is no judgment in their paths, Their paths they have made perverse for themselves, No treader in it hath known peace.
Themes
Crookedness » Crookedness, general references to
Crookedness » Those that make crooked paths
Duplicity » Crookedness, general references to
Evil » Way » General references to
Ignorance » Spiritual » General references to
No » Peace for the worldly and wicked
Pathway of sin » General references to
Peace » Social » No peace for the worldly and wicked
Spiritual » Ignorance » General references to
The counselors of peace » Who shall not have peace
Topics
Interlinear
Yada`
Mishpat
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 59:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Rampant Transgression
7 Their feet will run to evil, and they will hasten to pour out innocent blood: their purposes, purposes of vanity; destruction and breaking in their highways. 8 The way of peace they knew not, and no judgment in their paths: they perverted their beaten paths for themselves: every one treading in it shall not know peace. 9 For this judgment was far off from us, and justice shall not overtake us: we shall wait for light, and behold, darkness; for brightness, and we shall walk in thick darkness.
Names
Cross References
Luke 1:79
To shine forth to those in darkness and sitting in the shadow of death, to direct our feet in the way of peace.
Isaiah 48:22
No peace, said Jehovah, to the unjust
Isaiah 57:20-21
And the unjust as the tossed sea when it shall not be able to rest, and its waters will toss up mud and mire;
Psalm 58:1-2
To the overseer, Thou wilt not destroy; to David a poem. Will ye indeed speak dumb justice? will ye judge justly, ye sons of man?
Psalm 125:5
And those turning to their winding ways, Jehovah will cause them to go with those working iniquity: peace upon Israel.
Proverbs 2:15
Whose paths are perverted, and in their tracks are bent aside:
Proverbs 3:17
Her ways the ways of pleasantness, and all her beaten paths, peace.
Proverbs 28:18
He going uprightly shall be saved; and he being violent in the ways shall fall at once.
Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of Jehovah of armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah the plant of his pleasures: and he will wait for judgment, and behold bloodshed; for justice, and behold a cry.
Isaiah 59:14-15
And judgment was turned away behind, and justice shall stand from far off: for truth fainted in the street, and right will not be able to come in.
Jeremiah 5:1
Run ye to and fro in the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in her broad places, if ye shall find a man, if there is he doing judgment, seeking faithfulness; and I will pardon to her.
Hosea 4:1-2
Hear the word of Jehovah, ye sons of Israel: for a contention to Jehovah with the inhabitants of the land, for no truth and no kindness and no knowledge of God in the land.
Amos 6:1-6
Wo! to those living at ease in Zion, and trusting in the mountain of Shomeron, being distinguished the chief of the nations, and to them the house of Israel came.
Matthew 23:23
Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye exact tenths and dill and cummin, and ye have left the weightier things of the law, judgment, and mercy, and faith: these it was necessary to do, and not to let go those.
Romans 3:17
And the way of peace they knew not: