Isaiah 59:8

Modern English Version

The way of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their ways; they have made their paths crooked; whoever walks in them does not know peace.

Cross References

Psalm 125:5

As for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, the Lord will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel!

Proverbs 2:13

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

Proverbs 2:15

whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways;

Proverbs 21:8

Crooked is the way of a guilty man, but as for the pure, his conduct is right.

Proverbs 28:18

He who walks blamelessly will be saved, but he who is perverse in his ways will suddenly fall.

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 men of Judah His pleasant plant. Thus He looked for justice, but behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry!

Isaiah 59:11

We all roar like bears and mourn sadly like doves; we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

Isaiah 59:9

Therefore, justice is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us; we hope for light, and behold, darkness, and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

Isaiah 65:2

I have spread out My hands all day to a rebellious people who walk in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;

Jeremiah 5:1

Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, see now and know; seek in the open places if you can find a man, if there is any who executes justice, who seeks the truth, that I may pardon her.

Matthew 23:23

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You tithe mint and dill and cumin, but have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done without leaving the others undone.

Luke 1:79

to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

Romans 3:17

and they do not know the way of peace.”