Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from the LORD, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, *Who sees us?* and *Who knows us?*
Isaiah 57:12 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they shall not profit you. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 deeply hide their counsel from the LORD, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, *Who sees us?* and *Who knows us?*
Everyone who makes an engraved image is vain. The things that they delight in will not profit. Their own witnesses don't see, nor know, that they may be disappointed.
Cry aloud, don't spare, lift up your voice like a shofar, and declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Ya`akov their sins.
You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways: behold, you were angry, 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, says the LORD, who have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills; therefore will I first measure their work into their bosom.
For I [know] their works and their thoughts: [the time] comes, that I will gather all nations and languages; and they shall come, and shall see my glory.
Thus shall you say to 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 disappointed by his engraved 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.
*Woe to you, scribes and Perushim, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their tefillin broad, enlarge the tzitziyot of their garments,