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 your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, ye shall be trodden down by it.

Therefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel: Because ye reject this word, and confide in oppression and wilfulness, and depend thereon,

Whose confidence shall be cut off, and his reliance is a spider's web.

Neither

Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, who take counsel, but not of me, and who make leagues, but not by my Spirit, that they may heap sin upon sin;

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

And we are all become as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have carried us away;

Wherefore by works of law no flesh shall be justified before him; for by law is knowledge of sin.

Even as David also declares the blessedness of the man to whom God reckons righteousness without works:

Because thou sayest, I am rich, and am grown rich, and have need of nothing, and knowest not that thou art the wretched and the miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked;

Their works

For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah the plant of his delight: and he looked for justice, and behold, blood-shedding; for righteousness, and behold, a cry.

And the earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was full of violence.

Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

As a well poureth forth her waters, so she poureth forth her wickedness: violence and destruction are heard in her; before me continually are grief and wounds.

Violence is risen up into a rod of wickedness: nothing of them shall remain, nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth, nor of the magnificence in the midst of them.

and they know not to do right, saith Jehovah, who store up violence and plunder in their palaces.

Ye that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;

Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know judgment?

For her rich men are full of violence, and her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Jehovah, how long shall I cry and thou wilt not hear? I cry out unto thee, Violence! and thou dost not save.

And in that day will I punish all those that leap over the threshold, who fill their master's house with violence and deceit.

Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, that leave nothing for the morning.

General references

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

And the Jews also joined in pressing the matter against Paul, saying that these things were so.