Teks -- Isaiah 59:7 (NET)

59:7 They are eager to do evil, quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; they crush and destroy.

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Wesley: Isa 59:7 - Wasting

They meditate on little or nothing else.

Wesley: Isa 59:7 - Paths

In what way or work soever they are engaged, it all tends to ruin and destruction.

JFB: Isa 59:7 - feet

All their members are active in evil; in Isa 59:3, the "hands, fingers, lips, and tongue," are specified.

JFB: Isa 59:7 - run . . . haste

(Rom 3:15). Contrast David's "running and hasting" in the ways of God (Psa 119:32, Psa 119:60).

JFB: Isa 59:7 - thoughts

Not merely their acts, but their whole thoughts.

Calvin: Isa 59:7 - Their feet run to evil // Wasting and destruction are in their paths

7.Their feet run to evil In various ways he paints to us the picture of what may be called extreme wickedness; that is, when men, having shaken off and cast away from them the fear of God, throw themselves into every kind of wickedness, and break out into all cruelty, extortion, and outrage. He says that they run, because they are eager and hasten with excessive keenness to evil actions. Having formerly spoken of the “hands” and the “tongues,” he likewise adds the feet, in order to show that they are proficients ¹³⁵ in every kind of villainy, and that there is no part of their body that is entirely free from crime. Some are violent, but restrain their tongues. ¹³⁶ Others resemble harpies, but are satisfied with the first prey that they meet with. But the Prophet says that his countrymen are swift of foot for committing robberies. ¹³⁷

Wasting and destruction are in their paths He means that, wherever they go, they will resemble wild beasts, which seize and devour whatever they meet with, and leave nothing behind, so that, by their terrific onset, they drive away every kind of animals from venturing to approach to them. Pliny makes use of the same comparison, when speaking of Domitian, whose arrival was like that of a savage beast. The same thing happens with other violent men, whom all avoid as wild beasts. And in this manner their ways are rendered desolate and solitary, when none have any intercourse with them.

TSK: Isa 59:7 - feet // and they // their thoughts // wasting // destruction

feet : Pro 1:16, Pro 6:17; Rom 3:15

and they : Isa 59:3; Jer 22:17; Lam 4:13; Eze 9:9, Eze 22:6; Mat 23:31-37; Rev 17:6

their thoughts : Pro 15:26, Pro 24:9; Mar 7:21, Mar 7:22; Act 8:20-22

wasting : Isa 60:18; Rom 3:16

destruction : Heb. breaking

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Poole: Isa 59:7 - Their feet run to evil // Their thoughts // Wasting and destruction are in their paths

Their feet run to evil: this seems to be taken from Pro 1:16 . See Poole "Pro 1:16" . He had spoken of their hands, lips, and heart, &c. before, and now of their feet , to show that they were wholly set upon mischief.

Their thoughts i.e. their heart and mind, is set upon doing wrong and injury; they not only do evil, but do it deliberately. You have the wicked described by this kind of working of their thoughts, Psa 64:6 ; they meditate on little or nothing else.

Wasting and destruction are in their paths a metaphor put for the behaviours and carriages of men; in what way or work soever they are engaged, it all tends to ruin and destruction. A metaphor taken from an overspreading torrent, or sweeping plague, or beasts of prey, that tear and devour whatsoever comes in their way.

Gill: Isa 59:7 - Their feet run to evil // and they make haste to shed innocent blood // their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity // wasting and destruction are in their paths

Their feet run to evil,.... Make haste to commit all manner of sin, and particularly that which follows, with great eagerness and swiftness, taking delight and pleasure therein, and continuing in it; it is their course of life. The words seem to be taken out of Pro 1:16 and are quoted with the following by the Apostle Paul, Rom 3:15 to prove the general corruption of mankind:

and they make haste to shed innocent blood: in wars abroad or at home, in quarrels and riots, or through the heat of persecution; which if it does not directly touch men's lives, yet issues in the death of many that fall under the power of it; and which persecutors are very eager and hasty in the prosecution of. The phrase fitly describes their temper and conduct:

their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity: their thoughts are continually devising things vain and sinful in themselves, unprofitable to them, and pernicious to others: their thoughts, words, and actions being evil; their tongue, lips, hands, and feet being employed in sin, show their general depravity:

wasting and destruction are in their paths: they waste and destroy all they meet with in their ways, their fellow creatures and their substance; and the ways they walk in lead to ruin and destruction, which will be their portion for evermore.