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 57:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 I will declare thy righteousness; and as for thy works, they shall not profit thee. 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 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?
They that fashion a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit: and their own witnesses see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou wast wroth, and we sinned: in them have we been of long time, and shall we be saved?
your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I first measure their work into their bosom.
For I know their works and their thoughts: the time cometh, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and shall see my glory.
Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.
Every man is become brutish and is without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter.
But all their works they do for to be seen of men: for they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,