Isaias 59:7

Filipino Cebuano Bible

7 Ang ilang mga tiil manalagan padulong sa kadautan, ug sila madali nga moula sa dugo nga inocente: ang ilang mga hunahuna mao ang mga hunahuna sa kasal-anan; kasub-anan; ug kalaglagan anaa sa ilang mga alagianan.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

feet: Proverbs 1:16, Proverbs 6:17, Romans 3:15

and they: Isaiah 59:3, Jeremiah 22:17, Lamentations 4:13, Ezekiel 9:9, Ezekiel 22:6, Matthew 23:31-37, Revelation 17:6

their thoughts: Proverbs 15:26, Proverbs 24:9, Mark 7:21, Mark 7:22, Acts 8:20-22

wasting: Isaiah 60:18, Romans 3:16

destruction: Heb. breaking

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 19:10 - General 2 Samuel 17:1 - I will arise Psalms 10:4 - thoughts Psalms 14:3 - all gone Psalms 55:11 - deceit Psalms 59:4 - run Proverbs 6:18 - feet Proverbs 12:6 - words Ecclesiastes 4:1 - and considered Isaiah 65:2 - which Jeremiah 2:34 - Also Jeremiah 6:19 - even Jeremiah 7:6 - and shed Jeremiah 19:4 - filled Jeremiah 41:7 - slew Ezekiel 7:23 - for Ezekiel 18:7 - hath spoiled Micah 7:2 - they all Matthew 2:16 - and slew Matthew 15:19 - evil John 13:30 - went Acts 23:15 - that he 2 Corinthians 10:5 - every thought

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Their feet run to evil,.... Make haste to commit all manner of sin, and particularly that which follows, with great eagerness and swiftness, taking delight and pleasure therein, and continuing in it; it is their course of life. The words seem to be taken out of Proverbs 1:16 and are quoted with the following by the Apostle Paul, Romans 3:15 to prove the general corruption of mankind:

and they make haste to shed innocent blood: in wars abroad or at home, in quarrels and riots, or through the heat of persecution; which if it does not directly touch men's lives, yet issues in the death of many that fall under the power of it; and which persecutors are very eager and hasty in the prosecution of. The phrase fitly describes their temper and conduct:

their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity: their thoughts are continually devising things vain and sinful in themselves, unprofitable to them, and pernicious to others: their thoughts, words, and actions being evil; their tongue, lips, hands, and feet being employed in sin, show their general depravity:

wasting and destruction are in their paths: they waste and destroy all they meet with in their ways, their fellow creatures and their substance; and the ways they walk in lead to ruin and destruction, which will be their portion for evermore.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Their feet run to evil - In accordance with the design of the prophet to show the entireness of their depravity, he states that all their members were employed in doing evil. In Isaiah 59:3-6. he had remarked that depravity had extended to their hands, their fingers, their lips, and their tongue; he here states that their feet also were employed in doing evil. Instead of treading the paths of righteousness, and hastening to execute purposes of mercy and justice, they were employed in journeyings to execute plans of iniquity. The words ‘run,’ and ‘make haste,’ are designed to intimate the intensity of their purpose to do wrong. They did not walk slowly; they did not even take time to deliberate; but such was their desire of wrong-doing, that they hastened to execute their plans of evil. People usually walk slowly and with a great deal of deliberation when any good is to be done; they walk rapidly, or they run with haste and alacrity when evil is to be accomplished. This passage is quoted by the apostle Paul Romans 3:15, and is applied to the Jews of his own time as proof of the depraved character of the entire nation.

They make haste to shed innocent blood - No one can doubt that this was the character of the nation in the time of Manasseh (see the Introduction, Section 3). It is not improbable that the prophet refers to the bloody and cruel reign of this prince. That it was also the character of the nation when Isaiah began to prophesy is apparent from Isaiah 1:15-21.

Their thoughts - That is, their plans and purposes are evil. It is not merely that evil is done, but they intended that it should be done. They had no plan for doing good; and they were constantly laying plans for evil.

Wasting - That is, violence, oppression, destruction. It means that the government was oppressive and tyrannical; and that it was the general character of the nation that they were regardless of the interests of truth and righteousness.

And destruction - Margin, ‘Breaking.’ The word commonly means breaking or breach; then a breaking down, or destruction, as of a kingdom Lamentations 2:11; Lamentations 3:47; or of individuals Isaiah 1:28. Here it means that they broke down or trampled on the rights of others.

Are in their paths - Instead of marking their ways by deeds of benevolence and justice, they could be tracked by cruelty and blood. The path of the wicked through the earth can be seen usually by the desolations which they make. The path of conquerors can be traced by desolated fields, and smouldering ruins, and forsaken dwelling-places, and flowing blood; and the course of all the wicked can be traced by the desolations which they make in their way.