Isaiah 59:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their ways. Their roads they have made crooked; no one who walks in them knows 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ They have not known the way of peace, and there is no judgment in their steps. Their paths are become crooked to them: every one that treadeth in them knoweth no peace.

Isaiah 59:8 Cross References

Psalm 125:5

But those who turn aside to their own crooked ways, the Lord will lead away with evildoers. Peace be upon Israel!

Proverbs 2:13

who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,

Proverbs 2:15

those whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.

Proverbs 21:8

The way of the guilty is crooked, but the conduct of the pure is right.

Proverbs 28:18

One who walks in integrity will be safe, but whoever follows crooked ways will fall into the Pit.

Proverbs 3:17

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

Isaiah 48:22

“There is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked.”

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah are his cherished garden; he expected justice but saw bloodshed; righteousness but heard a cry!

Isaiah 59:11

We all growl like bears; like doves we moan mournfully. We wait for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

Isaiah 59:9

Therefore justice is far from us, and deliverance does not reach us; we wait for light, but there is only darkness; and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

Isaiah 65:2

I held out my hands all day long to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own devices;

Jeremiah 5:1

Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, look around and take note! Search its squares and see if you can find one person who acts justly and seeks truth— so that I may pardon Jerusalem.

Matthew 23:23

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. It is these you ought to have practiced without neglecting the others.

Luke 1:79

to shine upon those who 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 they have not known.”