Isaiah 59:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

Webs

Isaiah 28:18

Isaiah 30:12

Job 8:14

Neither

Their works

General references

Isaiah 57:12

Acts 24:9

Bible References

Webs

And the help you were looking for from death will come to nothing, and your agreement with the underworld will be broken; when the overflowing waters come through, then you will be overcome by them.

For this cause the Holy One of Israel says, Because you will not give ear to this word, and are looking for help in ways of deceit and evil, and are putting your hope in them:

Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread.

Neither

Ho! uncontrolled children, says the Lord, who give effect to a purpose which is not mine, and who make an agreement, but not by my spirit, increasing their sin:

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

For we have all become like an unclean person, and all our good acts are like a dirty robe: and we have all become old like a dead leaf, and our sins, like the wind, take us away.

Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

As David says that there is a blessing on the man to whose account God puts righteousness without works, saying,

For you say, I have wealth, and have got together goods and land, and have need of nothing; and you are not conscious of your sad and unhappy condition, that you are poor and blind and without clothing.

Their works

For the vine-garden of the Lord of armies is the people of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of his delight: and he was looking for upright judging, and there was blood; for righteousness, and there was a cry for help.

And the earth was evil in God's eyes and full of violent ways.

The purposes of your hearts are evil; your hands are full of cruel doings on the earth.

As the spring keeps its waters cold, so she keeps her evil in her: the sound of cruel and violent behaviour is in her; before me at all times are disease and wounds.

Violent behaviour has been lifted up into a rod of evil; it will not be slow in coming, it will not keep back.

For they have no knowledge of how to do what is right, says the Lord, who are storing up violent acts and destruction in their great houses.

You who put far away the evil day, causing the rule of the violent to come near;

A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

And I said, Give ear, now, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the people of Israel: is it not for you to have knowledge of what is right?

For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.

How long, O Lord, will your ears be shut to my voice? I make an outcry to you about violent behaviour, but you do not send salvation.

And in that day I will send punishment on all those who come jumping over the doorstep and make their master's house full of violent behaviour and deceit.

Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.

General references

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

And the Jews were in agreement with his statement, saying that these things were so.