Isaiah 59:8 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁸ 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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ The way of peace they know not, and there is no justice or right in their goings. They have made them into crooked paths; whoever goes in them does not know peace. [Rom. 3:15-18.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ 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.

Common English Bible

⁸ They don’t know the way of peace; there’s no justice in their paths. They make their roads crooked; no one who walks in them knows peace.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ They have not known the way of peace, and there is no judgment in their steps. Their paths have become crooked for them. Anyone who treads in them knows no peace.

Isaiah 59:8 Cross References

Psalm 125:5

As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.

Proverbs 2:13

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

Proverbs 2:15

whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

Proverbs 21:8

The way of man is froward and strange: but as for the pure, his work is right.

Proverbs 28:18

Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.

Proverbs 3:17

Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

Isaiah 48:22

There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

Isaiah 59:11

We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

Isaiah 59:9

Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

Isaiah 65:2

I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;

Jeremiah 5:1

Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.

Matthew 23:23

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

Luke 1:79

to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

Romans 3:17

and the way of peace have they not known: