Isaiah 59:8

The Scriptures 2009

The way of peace they have not known, and there is no right-ruling in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves, whoever treads in them shall not know peace.

Cross References

Psalm 125:5

But those who turn aside to their crooked ways, יהוה shall lead them away With the workers of wickedness. Peace be upon Yisra’ĕl!

Proverbs 2:13

Those who leave the paths of straightness To walk in the ways of darkness;

Proverbs 2:15

Whose paths are crooked, And they are perverted in their ways;

Proverbs 21:8

The way of a guilty man is perverse; But as for the innocent, his work is right.

Proverbs 28:18

He who walks blamelessly is saved, But the perverted of ways falls at once.

Proverbs 3:17

Her ways are pleasant ways, And all her paths are peace.

Isaiah 48:22

“There is no peace for the wrong,” said יהוה.”

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of יהוה of hosts is the house of Yisra’ĕl, and the man of Yehuḏah is His pleasant plant. He looked for right-ruling, but see, oppression; for righteousness, but see, weeping.

Isaiah 59:11

All of us growl like bears, and moan sadly like doves. We look for right-ruling, but there is none; for deliverance, but it is far from us.

Isaiah 59:9

Therefore right-ruling has been far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We look for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in thick darkness!

Isaiah 65:2

“I have held out My hands all day long to a stubborn people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

Jeremiah 5:1

“Diligently search the streets of Yerushalayim, and please look, and know and seek in her open places if you find a man, if there is anyone doing right-ruling, seeking the truth, then I shall pardon her.

Matthew 23:23

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you tithe the mint and the anise and the cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the Torah: the right-ruling and the compassion and the belief. These need to have been done, without neglecting the others.

Luke 1:79

to give light to those who sit in darkness and 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.”