Isaiah 57:12
I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
KJV
Ego annuntiabo justitiam tuam, et opera tua non proderunt tibi.
Vulgate
καὶ ἐγὼ ἀπαγγελῶ τὴν δικαιοσύνην σου καὶ τὰ κακά σου, ἃ οὐκ ὠφελήσει σε·
LXX
I will declare thy righteousness; and as for thy works, they shall not profit thee.
ASV
אֲנִ֥י אַגִּ֖יד צִדְקָתֵ֑/ךְ וְ/אֶֽת מַעֲשַׂ֖יִ/ךְ וְ/לֹ֥א יוֹעִילֽוּ/ךְ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֲנִ֥י
'ny
pronoun · 862×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
הוֹעִ֔יל
hv'yl
verb · 23×
יַּגֶּד
ygd
verb · 369×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה
m'shh
noun · 234×
צְדָקָ֖ה
tsdqh
noun · 157×
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Isa 1:11 — To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lamb
- Isa 28:20 — For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.
- Isa 29:15 — Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
- Isa 29:15 — Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
- Isa 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 appr
- Isa 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.
- Isa 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.
- Isa 64:5 — Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
- Isa 64:6 — But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
- Isa 66:3 — He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine’s blood; he that burneth incense, as if he
- Jer 7:4 — Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.
- Matt 23:5 — But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
- Matt 23:13 — But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
- Mic 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;
- Rev 3:2 — Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
- Rom 3:10 — As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
- Rom 10:2 — For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
- Rom 10:3 — For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
- Titus 3:5 — Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;