Isaiah 57:12

King James Version

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

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
I will declare your righteousness and your deeds,But they will not profit you.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I will declare your righteousness and your deeds, But they will not profit you.

Bible in Basic English
I will make clear what your righteousness is like and your works; you will have no profit in them.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Yea veryly I wyll declare thy goodnesse and thy workes, but they shall not profite thee.

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

New King James Version
I will declare your righteousness And your works, For they will not profit you.

Literal Translation
I will reveal your righteousness and your works, and they will not benefit you.

Easy-to-Read Version
I could tell about your ‘good works' and all the ‘religious' things you do, but that will not help you.

World English Bible
I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they shall not profit you.

King James Version (1611)
I will declare thy righteousnes; and thy workes, for they shall not profit thee.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yee verely I wil declare yi goodnes & yi workes, but they shal not profit ye.

Amplified Bible
"I will declare your [hypocritical] righteousness and your deeds, But they will not benefit you.

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

Update Bible Version
I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they shall not profit you.

Webster's Bible Translation
I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.

New Century Version
I will tell about your ‘goodness' and what you do, and those things will do you no good.

New English Translation
I will denounce your so-called righteousness and your deeds, but they will not help you.

Contemporary English Version
You think you're so good, but I'll point out the truth.

Complete Jewish Bible
I will expose your [so-called] ‘righteousness'; and what you have done won't help you.

Geneva Bible (1587)
I will declare thy righteousnes and thy workes, and they shall not profite thee.

George Lamsa Translation
I will declare my righteousness, and your works shall not profit you.

Hebrew Names Version
I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they shall not profit you.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I will declare thy righteousness; thy works also--they shall not profit thee.

New Living Translation
Now I will expose your so-called good deeds. None of them will help you.

New Life Bible
I will make known how right you are and what you have done, but it will not help you.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I will declare thy righteousness, and thy sins, which shall not profit thee.

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

Berean Standard Bible
I will expose your righteousness and your works, and they will not profit you.

New Revised Standard
I will concede your righteousness and your works, but they will not help you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I, will expose thy righteousness, - And thy works - but they will not profit thee!

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will declare thy justice, and thy works shall not profit thee.

Lexham English Bible
I myself will declare your righteousness and your works, but they will not benefit you.

English Standard Version
I will declare your righteousness and your deeds, but they will not profit you.

New American Standard Bible
"I will declare your righteousness and your deeds, And they will not benefit you.

Good News Translation
You think that what you do is right, but I will expose your conduct, and your idols will not be able to help you.

Christian Standard Bible®
I will expose your righteousness, and your works—they will not profit you.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y schal telle thi riytfulnesse, and thi werkis schulen not profite to thee.

Revised Standard Version
I will tell of your righteousness and your doings, but they will not help you.

Young's Literal Translation
I declare thy righteousness, and thy works, And they do not profit thee.

Contextual Overview

³ But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore. ⁴ Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood. ⁵ Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks? ⁶ Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these? ⁷ Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice. ⁸ Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it. ⁹ And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell. ¹⁰ Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope: thou hast found the life of thine hand; therefore thou wast not grieved. 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? ¹² I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works; for they shall not profit thee.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 1:11-15, Isaiah 58:2-6, Isaiah 59:6-8, Isaiah 64:5, Isaiah 66:3, Isaiah 66:4, Jeremiah 7:4-11, Micah 3:2-4, Matthew 23:5, Matthew 23:14, Romans 3:10-20, Romans 10:2, Romans 10:3

Reciprocal: Isaiah 28:20 - the bed Isaiah 64:6 - all our 1 Corinthians 13:3 - profiteth Galatians 1:14 - profited Titus 3:5 - by works Revelation 3:2 - thy works

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works,.... For, notwithstanding all the idolatry, superstition, irreligion, and cruelty of the church of Rome, she makes large pretences to righteousness, by which she expects to be justified, and to merit eternal life, and even pretends to works of supererogation; but God will in due time make it clearly appear, both by the ministry of his faithful servants, which he has done in part already; and by his judgments that he will execute, that she has no righteousness; that what she calls so is no righteousness, but wickedness; and that her works she calls good works are bad ones, superstitious, idolatrous, and tyrannical:

for they shall not profit thee; secure from judgment here, or from wrath to come; nor justify before God, nor procure salvation and eternal life; but, on the contrary, shall bring deserved ruin and destruction, here and hereafter.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will declare thy righteousness - This is evidently spoken ironically. The sense is, ‘you have devoted yourselves to idols, and you have sought the aid of foreigners. I will now announce to you the true nature of the deliverance which they can bring to you.’ This is done in the following verse.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 57:12. Thy righteousness - "My righteousness"] For צדקתך tsidkathech, THY righteousness, the Syriac, Septuagint, MSS. Alex. and Pachom., and I. D. II., and Marchal. and οἱ Γ, and the Arabic, read צדקי tsidki, MY righteousness.