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Isaiah 57:12

New American Bible - revised edition

I will proclaim your justice and your works; but they shall not help you.

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Ah! You who would hide a plan too deep for the Lord! Who work in the dark, saying, “Who sees us, who knows us?”

Those who fashion idols are all nothing; their precious works are of no avail. They are their witnesses: they see nothing, know nothing, and so they are put to shame.

Cry out full-throated and unsparingly, lift up your voice like a trumpet blast; Proclaim to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins.

We have all become like something unclean, all our just deeds are like polluted rags; We have all withered like leaves, and our crimes carry us away like the wind.

Your crimes and the crimes of your ancestors as well, says the Lord. Since they burned incense on the mountains, and insulted me on the hills, I will at once pour out in full measure their recompense into their laps.

I am coming to gather all nations and tongues; they shall come and see my glory.

Thus shall you say of them: The gods that did not make heaven and earth—let these perish from earth and from beneath heaven!

Everyone is too stupid to know; every artisan is put to shame by his idol: He has molded a fraud, without breath of life.

They are nothing, objects of ridicule; they will perish in their time of punishment.

They are nothing, a ridiculous work, that will perish at the time of punishment.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You lock the kingdom of heaven before human beings. You do not enter yourselves, nor do you allow entrance to those trying to enter. [

All their works are performed to be seen. They widen their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.




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