Isaiah 57:12

I will preach thy tzedakah, 1 and thy ma'asim, that they shall not profit thee. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

11And of whom hast thou dreaded or feared, 1 that thou hast lived a lie, 1 and hast not remembered Me, 1 nor laid it to thy lev (i.e., pondered it)? 1 Have not I held My peace me'olam (even from of old), 1 and thou fearest Me not? 1

13When thou criest for help, let thy + 57:13 idol kibutzim (heaps, collections) save thee; 1 but the ruach shall carry them all away; 1 hevel shall take them; 1 but he that putteth his trust in Me shall inherit eretz, 1 and shall inherit My Har Kodesh; 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 1:11To what purpose is the multitude 1 of your zevakhim unto Me? saith Hashem; 1 I am fed up of the olot (burnt offerings) of rams, 1 and the fat of fed beasts; 1 and I delight not in the dahm of bulls, 1 or of lambs, or of goats. 1

Isaiah 44:9They that make a pesel are all of them tohu; and their chamudim (favorite [idols]) are worthless; and they + 44:9 the idols are their own edim; they + 44:9 the idols see not, nor know; so that they + 44:9 the idol people are put to shame.

Isaiah 59:6Their webs shall not become beged (garments), 1 neither shall they cover themselves with their ma'asim; 1 their ma'asim are ma'asei aven (works of wickedness), 1 and the po'al chamas (act of violence) is in their hands. 1

Isaiah 66:3He that slaughtereth the bull 1 is the slayer of a man; 1 he that sacrificeth a seh, 1 is a strangler of dogs; 1 he that offereth a minchah, 1 it is dahm chazir; 1 he that burneth incense, 1 blesseth idols. 1 As they have chosen their own ways, 1 and their nefesh delighteth in their shikkutzim (abominations), 1

Jeremiah 10:11Thus shall ye say unto them: The g-ds that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and min techot (from under) these heavens. 1

Jeremiah 10:15They are hevel (vanity, delusion), and the ma'aseh (work) of delusion; 1 in the time of their pekudat (visitation, punishment) they shall perish. 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 57:4-13

A Charge against the People. ( b. c. 706.) 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… Read the whole commentary →

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