Isaiah 57:12 I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not benefit you.

◄ Isaiah 57:12 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not benefit you.

English Standard Version
I will declare your righteousness and your deeds, but they will not profit you.

New American Standard Bible
"I will declare your righteousness and your deeds, But they will not profit you.

King James Bible
I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I will expose your righteousness, and your works--they will not profit you.

International Standard Version
"I will denounce your righteousness and your works, for your collections of idols will not benefit you.

American Standard Version
I will declare thy righteousness; and as for thy works, they shall not profit thee.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will declare thy justice, and thy works shall not profit thee.

Darby Bible Translation
I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; and they shall not profit thee.

Young's Literal Translation
I declare thy righteousness, and thy works, And they do not profit thee.

Cross References

Isaiah 29:15
Woe to them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? and who knows us?

Isaiah 58:1
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

Isaiah 58:2
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.

Isaiah 59:6
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.

Isaiah 65:7
Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, said the LORD, which have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.

Isaiah 66:18
For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

Micah 3:2
Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

57:3-12 The Lord here calls apostates and hypocrites to appear before him. When reproved for their sins, and threatened with judgments, they ridiculed the word of God. The Jews were guilty of idolatry before the captivity; but not after that affliction. Their zeal in the worship of false gods, may shame our indifference in the worship of the true God. The service of sin is disgraceful slavery; those who thus debase themselves to hell, will justly have their portion there. Men incline to a religion that inflames their unholy passions. They are led to do any evil, however great or vile, if they think it will atone for crimes, or purchase indulgence for some favourite lust. This explains idolatry, whether pagan, Jewish, or antichristian. But those who set up anything instead of God, for their hope and confidence, never will come to a right end. Those who forsake the only right way, wander in a thousand by-paths. The pleasures of sin soon tire, but never satisfy. Those who care not for the word of God and his providences, show they have no fear of God. Sin profits not; it ruins and destroys.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

12. declare—I will expose publicly thy (hypocritical) righteousness. I will show openly how vain thy works, in having recourse to idols, or foreign alliances, shall prove (Isa 57:3).