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The way of the just is uprightness. You who are upright make the path of the righteous level.
Isaiah 26:7 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV The way of the just is uprightness: thou, most upright, dost weigh the path of the just.
  • BSB The path of the righteous is level; You clear a straight path for the upright.
  • NKJV The way of the just is uprightness; O Most Upright, You weigh the path of the just.
  • NASB ¶The way of the righteous is smooth; O Upright One, make the path of the righteous level.
  • NLT But for those who are righteous, the way is not steep and rough. You are a God who does what is right, and you smooth out the path ahead of them.

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Quick answer

The path of the righteous is level and upright, for God Himself makes their way smooth. God guides and steadies those who walk in righteousness.

Overview

The way of the just is marked by uprightness, and the Lord levels their path. God is the one who makes the righteous walk securely. The verse expresses confidence that God leads His people in a straight and steady way through life.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 17

  • Eph 2:10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.
  • Isa 42:16I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
  • 1 Jn 3:10In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.
  • 1 Jn 3:7Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
  • 2 Cor 1:12For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.
  • Job 27:5–6Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
  • Prov 20:7A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.
  • Ps 11:7For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.
  • 1 Sam 2:2–4There is no one as holy as Yahweh, For there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God.
  • Isa 35:8A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called The Holy Way. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there.
  • 1 Chr 29:17I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now I have seen with joy your people, who are present here, offer willingly to you.
  • Ps 18:23–26I was also blameless with him. I kept myself from my iniquity.
  • Ps 1:6For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.
  • 1 Cor 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
  • Job 31:6(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);
  • Zeph 3:5Yahweh, within her, is righteous. He will do no wrong. Every morning he brings his justice to light. He doesn’t fail, but the unjust know no shame.
  • Ps 11:4Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.

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Christ at the center

Isaiah sees him most clearly: the virgin's son Immanuel, the child on David's throne, the shoot from Jesse, the light to the nations, and above all the Suffering Servant pierced for our transgressions (ch. 53).

How Isaiah 26:7 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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