“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.”
The catalog of rushing to do evil, shedding innocent blood, and spreading destruction suggests obsessive devotion to violence and chaos. The statement that the way of peace they do not know establishes that violence and peace are mutually exclusive states of knowledge-practice. The verse emphasizes that the community has lost orientation toward peace: they do not know its way, suggesting spiritual disorientation. This existential lostness becomes the precondition for prophetic intervention and divine restoration. The catalog's rhythmic intensification moves from individual acts toward total worldview collapse: the community is at peace with violence and at war with peace.
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