Isaiah 59:6
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Their webs shall not be for clothing, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are unprofitable works, and the work of iniquity is in their hands.

webs

Isaiah 28:18-20 And your league with death shall be abolished, and your covenant with hell shall not stand: when the overflowing scourge shall pass, you shall be trodden down by it. . . .

Isaiah 30:12-14 Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: Because you have rejected this word, and have trusted in oppression and tumult, and have leaned upon it: . . .

Job 8:14,15 His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider's web. . . .

neither

Isaiah 30:1 Woe to you, apostate children, saith the Lord, that you would take counsel, and not of me: and would begin a web, and not by my spirit, that you might add sin upon sin:

Isaiah 57:12 I will declare thy justice, and thy works shall not profit thee.

Isaiah 64:6 And we are all become as one unclean, and all our justices as the rag of a menstruous woman: and we have all fallen as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

Romans 3:20-22 Because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified before him. For by the law is the knowledge of sin. . . .

Romans 4:6-8 As David also termeth the blessedness of a man to whom God reputeth justice without works: . . .

Revelation 3:17,18 Because thou sayest: I am rich and made wealthy and have need of nothing: and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked. . . .

their works

Isaiah 5:7 For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel: and the man of Juda, his pleasant plant: and I looked that he should do judgment, and behold iniquity: and do justice, and behold a cry.

Genesis 6:11 And the earth was corrupted before God, and was filled with iniquity.

Psalm 58:2 For in your heart you work iniquity: your hands forge injustice in the earth.

Jeremiah 6:7 As a cistern maketh its water cold, so hath she made her wickedness cold: violence and spoil shall be heard in her, infirmity and stripes are continually before me.

Ezekiel 7:11,23 Iniquity is risen up into a rod of impiety: nothing of them shall remain, nor of their people, nor of the noise of them: and there shall be no rest among them. . . .

Amos 3:10 And they have not known to do the right thing, saith the Lord, storing up iniquity, and robberies in their houses.

Amos 6:3 You that are separated unto the evil day: and that approach to the throne of iniquity;

Micah 2:1-3,8 Make thee bald, and be polled for thy delicate children: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle: for they are carried into captivity from thee. . . .

Micah 3:1-11 For he shall go up that shall open the way before them: they shall divide and pass through the gate, and shall come in by it: and their king shall pass before them, and the Lord at the head of them. . . .

Micah 6:12 By which her rich men were filled with iniquity, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue was deceitful in their mouth.

Habakkuk 1:2-4 How long, O Lord, shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear? shall I cry out to thee suffering violence, and thou wilt not save? . . .

Zephaniah 1:9 And I will visit in that day upon every one that entereth arrogantly over the threshold: them that fill the house of the Lord their God with iniquity and deceit.

Zephaniah 3:3,4 Her princes are in the midst of her as roaring lions: her judges are evening wolves, they left nothing for the morning. . . .

Context
Sin Separates Us from God
5They have broken the eggs of asps, and have woven the webs of spiders: he that shall eat of their eggs, shall die: and that which is brought out, shall be hatched into a basilisk. 6Their webs shall not be for clothing, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are unprofitable works, and the work of iniquity is in their hands.7Their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are unprofitable thoughts: wasting and destruction are in their ways.…
Cross References
Job 8:14
His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider's web.

Job 16:17
These things have I suffered without the iniquity of my hand, when I offered pure prayers to God.

Isaiah 28:20
For the bed is straitened, so that one must fall out, and a short covering cannot cover both.

Isaiah 57:12
I will declare thy justice, and thy works shall not profit thee.

Isaiah 58:4
Behold you fast for debates and strife, and strike with the fist wickedly. Do not fast as you have done until this day, to make your cry to be heard on high.

Jeremiah 6:7
As a cistern maketh its water cold, so hath she made her wickedness cold: violence and spoil shall be heard in her, infirmity and stripes are continually before me.

Ezekiel 7:11
Iniquity is risen up into a rod of impiety: nothing of them shall remain, nor of their people, nor of the noise of them: and there shall be no rest among them.

Ezekiel 18:12
That grieveth the needy and the poor, that taketh away by violence, that restoreth not the pledge, and that lifteth up his eyes to idols, that comitteth abomination:

Malachi 2:16
When thou shalt hate her put her away, saith the Lord, the God of Israel: but iniquity shalt cover his garment, saith the Lord of hosts, keep your spirit, and despise not.

Lexicon
Their cobwebs
קֽוּרֵיהֶם֙ (qū·rê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6980: Trenches, a web

cannot
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

be made into
יִהְי֣וּ (yih·yū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

clothing,
לְבֶ֔גֶד (lə·ḇe·ḡeḏ)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 899: A covering, clothing, treachery, pillage

and they cannot
וְלֹ֥א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

cover themselves
יִתְכַּסּ֖וּ (yiṯ·kas·sū)
Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3680: To plump, fill up hollows, to cover

with their works.
בְּמַֽעֲשֵׂיהֶ֑ם (bə·ma·‘ă·śê·hem)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4639: An action, a transaction, activity, a product, property

Their deeds
מַֽעֲשֵׂיהֶם֙ (ma·‘ă·śê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4639: An action, a transaction, activity, a product, property

are sinful
אָ֔וֶן (’ā·wen)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 205: Strictly nothingness, trouble, vanity, wickedness, an idol

deeds,
מַֽעֲשֵׂי־ (ma·‘ă·śê-)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 4639: An action, a transaction, activity, a product, property

and acts
וּפֹ֥עַל (ū·p̄ō·‘al)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 6467: Doing, deed, work

of violence
חָמָ֖ס (ḥā·mās)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2555: Violence, wrong, by meton, unjust gain

are in their hands.
בְּכַפֵּיהֶֽם׃ (bə·ḵap·pê·hem)
Preposition-b | Noun - fdc | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3709: Hollow or flat of the hand, palm, sole (of the foot), a pan


Additional Translations
Their cobwebs cannot be made into clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are sinful deeds, and acts of violence are in their hands.Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

Their web shall not become a garment, nor shall they at all clothe themselves with their works; for their works are works of iniquity.

Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works; their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

Their webs become not a garment, Nor do they cover themselves with their works, Their works are works of iniquity, And a deed of violence is in their hands.
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