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Selected Verse: Isaiah 59:8 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Isa 59:8 |
Strong Concordance |
The way [01870] of peace [07965] they know [03045] not; and there is no judgment [04941] in their goings [04570]: they have made them crooked [06140] paths [05410]: whosoever goeth [01869] therein shall not know [03045] peace [07965]. |
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King James |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
peace--whether in relation to God, to their own conscience, or to their fellow men (Isa 57:20-21).
judgment--justice.
crooked--the opposite of "straightforward" (Pro 2:15; Pro 28:18). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The way of peace they know not - The phrase 'way of peace' may denote either peace of conscience, peace with God, peace among themselves, or peace with their fellow-men. Possibly it may refer to all these; and the sense will be, that in their whole lives they were strangers to true contentment and happiness. From no quarter had they peace, but whether in relation to God, to their own consciences, to each other, or to their fellow-men, they were involved in continual strife and agitation (see the notes at Isa 57:20-21).
And there is no judgment in their goings - Margin, 'Right.' The sense is, that there was no justice in their dealings. there was no disposition to do right. They were full of selfishness, falsehood, oppression, and cruelty.
They have made them crooked paths - A crooked path is an emblem of dishonesty, fraud, deceit. A straight path is an emblem of sincerity, truth, honesty, and uprightness (see Psa 125:5; Pro 2:15; and the notes at Isa 40:4). The idea is, that their counsels and plans were perverse and evil. We have a similar expression now when we say of a man that he is 'straightforward,' meaning that he is an honest man. |
| Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
| Their whole nature is broken up into discord. "The way of peace they know not, and there is no right in their roads: they make their paths crooked: every one who treads upon them knows no peace." With דּרך, the way upon which a man goes, the prophet uses interchangeably (here and in Isa 59:7) מסלּה, a high-road thrown up with an embankment; מעגּל (with the plural in ı̂m and ôth), a carriage-road; and נתיבה, a footpath formed by the constant passing to and fro of travellers. Peaceable conduct, springing form a love of peace, and aiming at producing peace, is altogether strange to them; no such thing is to be met with in their path as the recognition of practice of right: they make their paths for themselves (להם, dat. ethicus), i.e., most diligently, twisting about; and whoever treads upon them (bâh, neuter, as in Isa 27:4), forfeits all enjoyment of either inward or outward peace. Shâlōm is repeated significantly, in Isaiah's peculiar style, at the end of the verse. The first strophe of the prophecy closes here: it was from no want of power or willingness on the part of God, that He had not come to the help of His people; the fault lay in their own sins. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| The way of peace - They live in continual contentions, and discords. Judgment - No justice, equity, faith, or integrity. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace "Whoever goeth in them knoweth not peace" - For בה bah, singular, read בם bam, plural, with the Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate, and Chaldee. The ה he is upon a rasure in one MS. Or, for נתיבתיהם nethibotheyhem, plural, we must read נתיבתם nethibatham, singular, as it is in an ancient MS., to preserve the grammatical concord. - L. |
18 Whoso walketh [01980] uprightly [08549] shall be saved [03467]: but he that is perverse [06140] in his ways [01870] shall fall [05307] at once [0259].
15 Whose ways [0734] are crooked [06141], and they froward [03868] in their paths [04570]:
20 But the wicked [07563] are like the troubled [01644] sea [03220], when it cannot [03201] rest [08252], whose waters [04325] cast up [01644] mire [07516] and dirt [02916].
21 There is no peace [07965], saith [0559] my God [0430], to the wicked [07563].
4 Every valley [01516] shall be exalted [05375], and every mountain [02022] and hill [01389] shall be made low [08213]: and the crooked [06121] shall be made straight [04334], and the rough places [07406] plain [01237]:
15 Whose ways [0734] are crooked [06141], and they froward [03868] in their paths [04570]:
5 As for such as turn aside [05186] unto their crooked ways [06128], the LORD [03068] shall lead them forth [03212] with the workers [06466] of iniquity [0205]: but peace [07965] shall be upon Israel [03478].
20 But the wicked [07563] are like the troubled [01644] sea [03220], when it cannot [03201] rest [08252], whose waters [04325] cast up [01644] mire [07516] and dirt [02916].
21 There is no peace [07965], saith [0559] my God [0430], to the wicked [07563].
4 Fury [02534] is not in me: who would set [05414] the briers [08068] and thorns [07898] against me in battle [04421]? I would go [06585] through them, I would burn [06702] them together [03162].
7 Their feet [07272] run [07323] to evil [07451], and they make haste [04116] to shed [08210] innocent [05355] blood [01818]: their thoughts [04284] are thoughts [04284] of iniquity [0205]; wasting [07701] and destruction [07667] are in their paths [04546].