Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
and there is no justice in their ways.
They have made their roads crooked;
no one who walks on them will know peace.
New American Standard Bible
And there is
They have made their paths crooked,
King James Version
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.
International Standard Version
The pathway of peace they do not know, and there is no justice in their courses. They have made their roads crooked; no one who walks in them will know peace."
A Conservative Version
They do not know the way of peace, and there is no justice in their goings. They have made them crooked paths. Whoever goes in it does not know peace.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
They do not know the way of peace,
And there is no justice in their tracks.
They have made them into crooked paths;
Whoever walks on them does not know peace.
Bible in Basic English
They have no knowledge of the way of peace, and there is no sense of what is right in their behaviour: they have made for themselves ways which are not straight; whoever goes in them has no knowledge of peace.
Darby Translation
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.
Julia Smith Translation
The way of peace they knew not, and no judgment in their paths: they perverted their beaten paths for themselves: every one treading in it shall not know peace.
King James 2000
The way of peace they know not; and there is no justice in their paths: they have made themselves crooked paths: whosoever goes in them shall not know peace.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They do not know [the] way of peace, and there is no justice in their firm paths. They have made their paths crooked for themselves; everyone {who walks} in it knows no peace.
Modern King James verseion
They did not know the way of peace, and there is no judgment in their paths. They have made crooked paths for themselves; whoever goes in them shall not know peace.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But the way of peace they know not. In their goings is no equity, their ways are so crooked that whosoever goeth therein, knoweth nothing of peace.
NET Bible
They are unfamiliar with peace; their deeds are unjust. They use deceitful methods, and whoever deals with them is unfamiliar with peace.
New Heart English Bible
The way of peace they do not know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace.
The Emphasized Bible
the way of well-being, have they not known, And there is no justice in their tracks, - Their paths, have they made crooked for themselves, None who treadeth therein knoweth well - being.
Webster
The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
World English Bible
The way of peace they don't know; and there is no justice in their goings: they have made them crooked paths; whoever goes therein does not know peace.
Youngs Literal Translation
A way of peace they have not known, And there is no judgment in their paths, Their paths they have made perverse for themselves, No treader in it hath known peace.
Themes
Crookedness » Crookedness, general references to
Crookedness » Those that make crooked paths
Duplicity » Crookedness, general references to
Evil » Way » General references to
Ignorance » Spiritual » General references to
No » Peace for the worldly and wicked
Pathway of sin » General references to
Peace » Social » No peace for the worldly and wicked
Spiritual » Ignorance » General references to
The counselors of peace » Who shall not have peace
Topics
Interlinear
Yada`
Mishpat
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 59:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Rampant Transgression
7
and they rush to shed innocent blood.
Their thoughts are sinful thoughts;
ruin and wretchedness are in their paths.
and there is no justice in their ways.
They have made their roads crooked;
no one who walks on them will know peace.
and righteousness does not reach us.
We hope for light, but there is darkness;
for brightness, but we live in the night.
Names
Cross References
Luke 1:79
and the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the way of peace.
Isaiah 48:22
Isaiah 57:20-21
for it cannot be still,
and its waters churn up mire and muck.
Psalm 58:1-2
For the choir director: “Do Not Destroy.”
Do you judge people fairly?
Psalm 125:5
the Lord will banish them with the evildoers.
Proverbs 2:15
and whose ways are devious.
Proverbs 3:17
and all her paths, peaceful.
Proverbs 28:18
but one who distorts right and wrong
will suddenly fall.
Isaiah 5:7
is the house of Israel,
and the men
the plant He delighted in.
He looked for justice
but saw injustice,
for righteousness,
but heard cries of wretchedness.
Isaiah 59:14-15
and righteousness stands far off.
For truth has stumbled in the public square,
and honesty cannot enter.
Jeremiah 5:1
Look and take note;
search in her squares.
If you find one person,
any who acts justly,
who seeks to be faithful,
then I will forgive her.
Hosea 4:1-2
for the Lord has a case
against the inhabitants of the land:
There is no truth,
and no knowledge of God
Amos 6:1-6
and to those who feel secure on the hill of Samaria—
the notable people in this first of the nations,
those the house of Israel comes to.
Matthew 23:23
Romans 3:17