Isaiah 59:8

Peace Sin

⁶ Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

⁷ 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.

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.

⁹ Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

¹⁰ We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: The 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.
KJV: 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.
WEB: They don’t know the way of peace; and there is no justice in their ways. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them doesn’t know peace.
ASV: 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.
DARBY: the way of peace they know not, and there is no judgment in their goings; they have made their paths crooked: whoso goeth therein knoweth not peace.
BLB: The way of peace they have not known, and no justice [is] in their tracks; their paths they have made crooked for themselves—everyone treading on it has not known peace.

ÅB: Fredens vei kjenner de ikke, og det er ingen rett i deres spor; sine stier gjør de krokete; hver den som treder på dem, vet ikke av fred.
OTB: De kjenner ikke fredens vei, og det er ingen rettferdighet på deres stier. De har gjort sine veier krokete; den som går på dem, finner ikke fred.
B1930: Fredens vei kjenner de ikke, og det er ingen rett i deres spor; sine stier gjør de krokete; hver den som treder på dem, vet ikke av fred.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Isaiah 57:20–21
But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
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Romans 3:17
And the way of peace have they not known:
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Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
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Luke 1:79
To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
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Psalms 58:1–2
Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
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Hosea 4:1–2
Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
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Jeremiah 5:1
Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.
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Matthew 23:23
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
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