Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.
The prophet here rectifies the mistake of those who had been quarrelling with God because they had not the deliverances wrought for them which they had been often fasting and praying for, Isa 58:3. Now here he shows, I. That it was not owing to God. They had no reason to lay the fault upon him that they were not saved out of the hands of their enemies; for, 1.
Commenting on Isaiah 59:1-8
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...
feet--All their members are active in evil; in Isa 59:3, the "hands, fingers, lips, and tongue," are specified. run . . . haste-- (Rom 3:15). Contrast David's "running and hasting" in the ways of God (Psa 119:32, Psa 119:60). thoughts--not merely their acts, but their whole thoughts.