Isaiah 57:12

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will announce your righteousness,and your works—they will not profit you.

Hebrew Names Version
I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they shall not profit you.

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

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, And they will not benefit you.

New Century Version
I will tell about your ‘goodness' and what you do, and those things will do you no good.

Amplified Bible
"I will declare your [hypocritical] righteousness and your deeds, But they will not benefit you.

World English Bible
I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they shall not profit you.

Geneva Bible (1587)
I will declare thy righteousnes and thy workes, and they shall not profite thee.

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

Berean Standard Bible
I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not profit you.

Contemporary English Version
You think you're so good, but I'll point out the truth.

Complete Jewish Bible
I will expose your [so-called] ‘righteousness'; and what you have done won't help you.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
I could tell about your ‘good works' and all the ‘religious' things you do, but that will not help you.

George Lamsa Translation
I will declare my righteousness, and your works shall not profit you.

Good News Translation
You think that what you do is right, but I will expose your conduct, and your idols will not be able to help you.

Lexham English Bible
I myself will declare your righteousness and your works, but they will not benefit you.

Literal Translation
I will reveal your righteousness and your works, and they will not benefit you.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yee verely I wil declare yi goodnes & yi workes, but they shal not profit ye.

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

Bible in Basic English
I will make clear what your righteousness is like and your works; you will have no profit in them.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I will declare thy righteousness; thy works also--they shall not profit thee.

King James Version (1611)
I will declare thy righteousnes; and thy workes, for they shall not profit thee.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Yea veryly I wyll declare thy goodnesse and thy workes, but they shall not profite thee.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I will declare thy righteousness, and thy sins, which shall not profit thee.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y schal telle thi riytfulnesse, and thi werkis schulen not profite to thee.

Update Bible Version
I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they shall not profit you.

Webster's Bible Translation
I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.

New English Translation
I will denounce your so-called righteousness and your deeds, but they will not help you.

New King James Version
I will declare your righteousness And your works, For they will not profit you.

New Living Translation
Now I will expose your so-called good deeds. None of them will help you.

New Life Bible
I will make known how right you are and what you have done, but it will not help you.

New Revised Standard
I will concede your righteousness and your works, but they will not help you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I, will expose thy righteousness, - And thy works - but they will not profit thee!

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

Revised Standard Version
I will tell of your righteousness and your doings, but they will not help you.

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

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I will declare your righteousness and your deeds, But they will not profit you.

Contextual Overview

³"But you, children of a witch, come here! Sons of a slut, daughters of a whore. What business do you have taunting, sneering, and sticking out your tongue? Do you have any idea what wretches you've turned out to be? A race of rebels, a generation of liars. You satisfy your lust any place you find some shade and fornicate at whim. You kill your children at any convenient spot— any cave or crevasse will do. You take stones from the creek and set up your sex-and-religion shrines. You've chosen your fate. Your worship will be your doom. You've climbed a high mountain to practice your foul sex-and-death religion. Behind closed doors you assemble your precious gods and goddesses. Deserting me, you've gone all out, stripped down and made your bed your place of worship. You've climbed into bed with the ‘sacred' whores and loved every minute of it, adoring every curve of their naked bodies. You anoint your king-god with ointments and lavish perfumes on yourselves. You send scouts to search out the latest in religion, send them all the way to hell and back. You wear yourselves out trying the new and the different, and never see what a waste it all is. You've always found strength for the latest fad, never got tired of trying new religions. ¹¹"Who talked you into the pursuit of this nonsense, leaving me high and dry, forgetting you ever knew me? Because I don't yell and make a scene do you think I don't exist? I'll go over, detail by detail, all your ‘righteous' attempts at religion, and expose the absurdity of it all. Go ahead, cry for help to your collection of no-gods: A good wind will blow them away. They're smoke, nothing but smoke. "But anyone who runs to me for help will inherit the land, will end up owning my holy mountain!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 1:11-15, Isaiah 58:2-6, Isaiah 59:6-8, Isaiah 64:5, Isaiah 66:3, Isaiah 66:4, Jeremiah 7:4-11, Micah 3:2-4, Matthew 23:5, Matthew 23:14, Romans 3:10-20, Romans 10:2, Romans 10:3

Reciprocal: Isaiah 28:20 - the bed Isaiah 64:6 - all our 1 Corinthians 13:3 - profiteth Galatians 1:14 - profited Titus 3:5 - by works Revelation 3:2 - thy works

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works,.... For, notwithstanding all the idolatry, superstition, irreligion, and cruelty of the church of Rome, she makes large pretences to righteousness, by which she expects to be justified, and to merit eternal life, and even pretends to works of supererogation; but God will in due time make it clearly appear, both by the ministry of his faithful servants, which he has done in part already; and by his judgments that he will execute, that she has no righteousness; that what she calls so is no righteousness, but wickedness; and that her works she calls good works are bad ones, superstitious, idolatrous, and tyrannical:

for they shall not profit thee; secure from judgment here, or from wrath to come; nor justify before God, nor procure salvation and eternal life; but, on the contrary, shall bring deserved ruin and destruction, here and hereafter.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will declare thy righteousness - This is evidently spoken ironically. The sense is, ‘you have devoted yourselves to idols, and you have sought the aid of foreigners. I will now announce to you the true nature of the deliverance which they can bring to you.’ This is done in the following verse.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 57:12. Thy righteousness - "My righteousness"] For צדקתך tsidkathech, THY righteousness, the Syriac, Septuagint, MSS. Alex. and Pachom., and I. D. II., and Marchal. and οἱ Γ, and the Arabic, read צדקי tsidki, MY righteousness.