Romans 3:15-17

Romans 3:15-17. Their feet, etc. Sinful doings are here described in a quotation from Isaiah 59:7-8. There are some omissions, as will appear from the following rendering of the original passage in the Hebrew:

‘Their feet run to do evil.

And they haste to shed innocent blood;

Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;

Wasting and destruction are in their highways;

A way of peace they hare not known,

And there is no judgment in their paths,

Their paths they have made perverse for themselves;

No reader in it hath known peace.'

The sense is plain: they readily commit murder (Romans 3:15); wherever they go, they produce destruction and misery (Romans 3:16); the one opposite way, that where men walk peacefully, is strange to them.