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Their webs will not become clothing,
nor will they cover themselves with what they make.
Their deeds are works of iniquity,
    an act of violence is in their hands.
Their feet run after evil.
They rush to shed innocent blood.[a]
Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity.
Violence and ruin are on their highways.
They do not know the path of peace,
and there is no justice in their tracks.
They have made their paths crooked.
Whoever walks in them will not experience shalom.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 59:7 cf. Rom. 3:17.

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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