Woe to those who hide a plan too deep for the Lord, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”
Isaiah 57:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 I will announce your verdict, and the objects you made will not help you. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I will expose your [pretended] righteousness and your doings, but they will not help you. American Standard Version (1901) I will declare thy righteousness; and as for thy works, they shall not profit thee. Common English Bible I will bring evidence about your righteousness and your actions; they won’t help you. Catholic Public Domain Version I will announce your justice, and your works will not benefit you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I will declare thy justice: and thy works shall not profit thee. |
Woe to those who hide a plan too deep for the Lord, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”
All who make idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit; their witnesses neither see nor know, and so they will be put to shame.
Shout out; do not hold back! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Announce to my people their rebellion, to the house of Jacob their sins.
You meet those who gladly do right, those who remember you in your ways. But you were angry, and we sinned; because you hid yourself we transgressed.
their iniquities and their ancestors’ iniquities together, says the Lord; because they offered incense on the mountains and reviled me on the hills, I will measure into their laps full payment for their actions.
for I know their works and their thoughts. I am coming to gather all nations and tongues, and they shall come and shall see my glory,
Thus shall you say to them: The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.
Everyone is stupid and without knowledge; goldsmiths are all put to shame by their idols, for their images are false, and there is no breath in them.
They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
They are worthless, a work of delusion; at the time of their punishment they shall perish.
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in you stop them.
They do all their deeds to be seen by others, for they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long.