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They cannot make a garment from their webs,
and they will not be able to cover themselves with their deeds.
Their deeds are evil deeds,
and violent actions fill their hands.
Their feet run to do evil,
and they hurry to shed innocent blood.
Their thoughts are futile[a] thoughts.
Destruction and ruin are the destination of their highways.
They do not know the road to peace,
and there is no justice on the route they follow.
They made crooked paths for themselves.
No one who walks on them will experience peace.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 59:7 Or sinful

Their cobwebs are useless for clothing;
    they cannot cover themselves with what they make.(A)
Their deeds are evil deeds,
    and acts of violence(B) are in their hands.
Their feet rush into sin;
    they are swift to shed innocent blood.(C)
They pursue evil schemes;(D)
    acts of violence mark their ways.(E)
The way of peace they do not know;(F)
    there is no justice in their paths.
They have turned them into crooked roads;(G)
    no one who walks along them will know peace.(H)

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