Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Their feet rush into sin; they are swift to shed innocent blood. They pursue evil schemes; acts of violence mark their ways. New Living Translation Their feet run to do evil, and they rush to commit murder. They think only about sinning. Misery and destruction always follow them. English Standard Version Their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their highways. Berean Study Bible Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake. New American Standard Bible Their feet run to evil, And they hasten to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, Devastation and destruction are in their highways. King James Bible Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. Christian Standard Bible Their feet run after evil, and they rush to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and wretchedness are in their paths. Contemporary English Version You hurry off to do wrong or murder innocent victims. All you think about is sin; you leave ruin and destruction wherever you go. Good News Translation You are always planning something evil, and you can hardly wait to do it. You never hesitate to murder innocent people. You leave ruin and destruction wherever you go, Holman Christian Standard Bible Their feet run after evil, and they rush to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and wretchedness are in their paths. International Standard Version Their feet rush to evil, and they are quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; ruin, destruction, and violence are in their paths. NET Bible They are eager to do evil, quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; they crush and destroy. New Heart English Bible Their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; destruction and calamity are in their paths. GOD'S WORD® Translation Their feet run to do evil. They hurry to shed innocent blood. Their plans are evil. Ruin and destruction are on their highways. JPS Tanakh 1917 Their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, Desolation and destruction are in their paths. New American Standard 1977 Their feet run to evil, And they hasten to shed innocent blood; Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; Devastation and destruction are in their highways. Jubilee Bible 2000 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are their paths. King James 2000 Bible Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. American King James Version Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. American Standard Version Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths. Douay-Rheims Bible Their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are unprofitable thoughts: wasting and destruction are in their ways. Darby Bible Translation Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood; their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths; English Revised Version Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation ard destruction are in their paths. Webster's Bible Translation Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. World English Bible Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths. Young's Literal Translation Their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed innocent blood, Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity, Spoiling and destruction are in their highways. Study Bible Sin Separates Us from God…6Their cobwebs cannot be made into clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are sinful deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands. 7Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake. 8The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace.… Cross References Matthew 2:16 When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was filled with rage. Sending orders, he put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, according to the time he had learned from the Magi. Mark 7:21 For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, Mark 7:22 greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness. Romans 3:15 Their feet are swift to shed blood; Proverbs 1:16 For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood. Proverbs 6:17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, Proverbs 6:18 a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that run swiftly to evil, Isaiah 15:5 My heart cries out over Moab; her fugitives flee as far as Zoar, as far as Eglath-shelishiyah; with weeping they ascend the slope of Luhith; they lament their destruction on the road to Horonaim. Isaiah 32:6 For a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the LORD; He leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink. Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon. Isaiah 65:2 All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people, who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations, Isaiah 66:4 So I will choose their punishment and I will bring terror upon them, because I called and no one answered, I spoke and no one listened. But they did what was evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight." Isaiah 66:18 "For I know their works and thoughts; the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues, and they will come and see My glory. Jeremiah 41:7 And when they came into the city, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the men with him slaughtered them and threw them into a cistern. Ezekiel 18:12 He oppresses the poor and needy, he commits robbery and does not restore a pledge. He lifts his eyes to idols; he commits abominations. Micah 7:2 The godly man has perished from the earth; there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; they hunt each other with a net. Treasury of Scripture Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. feet Proverbs 1:16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. Proverbs 6:17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, Romans 3:15 Their feet are swift to shed blood: and they Isaiah 59:3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; … Jeremiah 22:17 But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and … Lamentations 4:13 For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, … Ezekiel 9:9 Then said he to me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah … Ezekiel 22:6 Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in you to their power … Matthew 23:31-37 Why you be witnesses to yourselves, that you are the children of … Revelation 17:6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with … their thoughts Proverbs 15:26 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the … Proverbs 24:9 The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men. Mark 7:21,22 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, … Acts 8:20-22 But Peter said to him, Your money perish with you, because you have … wasting Isaiah 60:18 Violence shall no more be heard in your land, wasting nor destruction … Romans 3:16 Destruction and misery are in their ways: destruction. Heb. breaking (7) Their feet run to evil.--Note the parallelisms, entirely after the manner of Isaiah, with Proverbs 1:16; Proverbs 16:17. So the four words "paths," "goings," "ways," and "paths" (another word in the Hebrew) are all from the same book.Verse 7. - Their feet run to evil. It is, however, only too true that they have a power to work evil. They cannot construct, their devices fall through, their "spinning" is to no purpose; but they can, in a rough and blind way, do enormous mischief. "Their feet run to evil" - rush to it at full speed - brook no delay, but hurry on into act. It is an easy thing to shed innocent blood; and those who are conscious of constructive impotence are very apt to seek compensation by doing destructive work, which at least shows that they have a power of some kind. Hence "Reigns of Terror" when revolutions are at the last gasp. The strong expressions with respect to shedding innocent blood, used here and in 2 Kings 21:16 and 2 Kings 24:4, seem to imply something like a massacre of the more godly Israelites by the ungodly in Manasseh's time. Wasting and destruction (compare the "destruction and misery" of Romans 3:16, which is a quotation of the present passage). 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. 7. feet—All their members are active in evil; in Isa 59:3, the "hands, fingers, lips, and tongue," are specified. run … haste—(Ro 3:15). Contrast David's "running and hasting" in the ways of God (Ps 119:32, 60). thoughts—not merely their acts, but their whole thoughts.59:1-8 If our prayers are not answered, and the salvation we wait for is not wrought for us, it is not because God is weary of hearing prayer, but because we are weary of praying. See here sin in true colours, exceedingly sinful; and see sin in its consequences, exceedingly hurtful, separating from God, and so separating us, not only from all good, but to all evil. Yet numbers feed, to their own destruction, on infidel and wicked systems. Nor can their skill or craft, in devising schemes, as the spider weaves its web, deliver or save them. No schemes of self-wrought salvation shall avail those who despise the Redeemer's robe of righteousness. Every man who is destitute of the Spirit of Christ, runs swiftly to evil of some sort; but those regardless of Divine truth and justice, are strangers to peace. 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