Isaiah 57 · Verse 12

Isaiah 57:12

I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.
Isaiah 57:12, King James Version

Isaiah 57:12 in other translations

BSBI will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not profit you.
WEBI will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.
ASVI will declare thy righteousness; and as for thy works, they shall not profit thee.
YLTI declare thy righteousness, and thy works, And they do not profit thee.
DARBYI will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; and they shall not profit thee.
BBEI will make clear what your righteousness is like and your works; you will have no profit in them.
WebsterI will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.

What does Isaiah 57:12 mean?

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 (Is 57:3).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 12 Thy righteousness "My righteousness" - For צדקתך tsidkathech, Thy righteousness, the Syriac, Septuagint, MSS. Alex. and Pachom., and 1. D. II., and Marchal. and οἱ Γ, and the Arabics read צדקי tsidki, My righteousness.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 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…

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Isaiah 57:12 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אֲנִ֥י'a.NiIH589
אַגִּ֖יד'a.GidI will declareH5046
צִדְקָתֵ֑ךְtzid.ka.Tekhrighteousness yourH6666
וְאֶֽת\־ve.'Etand <obj.>H853
מַעֲשַׂ֖יִךְma.'a.Sa.yikhdeeds yourH4639
וְלֹ֥אve.Lo'and notH3808
יוֹעִילֽוּךְ\׃yo.'i.Lukhthey will benefit youH3276

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Isaiah 57:12

  • Matthew 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.

  • Romans 3:10-20

    As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: …

  • Micah 3:2-4

    Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. Then shall they cry unto the Lord, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

  • Isaiah 1:11-15

    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 lambs, or of he goats. When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. …

  • Jeremiah 7:4-11

    Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, The temple of the Lord, are these. For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever. …

  • Isaiah 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.

  • Isaiah 59:6-8

    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 feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.

  • Isaiah 58:2-6

    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. Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord? …

  • Romans 10:2-3

    For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. 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.

  • Isaiah 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?

  • Isaiah 66:3-4

    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 blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations. I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.

  • Matthew 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,

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1:11-15; 58:2-6; 59:6-8; 64:5; 66:3,4; Jer 7:4-11; Mic 3:2-4
Mt 23:5,14; Ro 3:10-20; 10:2,3

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Context

  • Isaiah 57:11

    And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?

  • Isaiah 57:12

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

  • Isaiah 57:13

    When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;

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Isaiah 57:12 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Yo publicaré tu justicia y tus obras, que no te aprovecharán.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Je déclarerai ta justice et tes œuvres, et elles ne te profiteront pas.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Ich, ich werde deine Gerechtigkeit kundtun; und deine Machwerke, sie werden dir nichts nützen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Ego annuntiabo justitiam tuam, et opera tua non proderunt tibi.