Isaiah 59:7

"Their webs won’t become garments. They won’t cover themselves with their works. Their works are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands."

Key Reflection

In Isaiah 59:7-8, the prophet contrasts the wicked's vain efforts to cloak themselves in righteousness with God’s true standard of justice and mercy. The evil deeds and violent actions they commit cannot be hidden or justified, emphasizing the inherent corruption that defiles their attempts at goodness.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

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. InIsaiah 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.

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