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 disannulled hath been your covenant with death, And your provision with Sheol doth not stand, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Then ye have been to it for a treading-place.

Therefore, thus said the Holy One of Israel, Because of your kicking against this word, And ye trust in oppression, And perverseness, and rely on it,

Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.

Neither

Woe to apostate sons, The affirmation of Jehovah! To do counsel, and not from Me, And to spread out a covering, and not of My spirit, So as to add sin to sin.

I declare thy righteousness, and thy works, And they do not profit thee.

And we are as unclean -- all of us, And as a garment passing away, all our righteous acts; And we fade as a leaf -- all of us. And our iniquities as wind do take us away.

wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.

even as David also doth speak of the happiness of the man to whom God doth reckon righteousness apart from works:

because thou sayest -- I am rich, and have grown rich, and have need of nothing, and hast not known that thou art the wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked,

Their works

Because the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts Is the house of Israel, And the man of Judah His pleasant plant, And He waiteth for judgment, and lo, oppression, For righteousness, and lo, a cry.

And the earth is corrupt before God, and the earth is filled with violence.

Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.

As the digging of a well, is for its waters, So she hath digged for her wickedness, Violence and spoil is heard in her, Before My face continually are sickness and smiting.

The violence hath risen to a rod of wickedness, There is none of them, nor of their multitude, Nor of their noise, nor is there wailing for them.

And they have not known to act straightforwardly, An affirmation of Jehovah, Who are treasuring up violence and spoil in their palaces.

Who are putting away the day of evil, And ye bring nigh the seat of violence,

Woe to those devising iniquity, And working evil on their beds, In the light of the morning they do it, For their hand is -- to God.

And I say, 'Hear, I pray you, heads of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Is it not for you to know the judgment?

Whose rich ones have been full of violence, And its inhabitants have spoken falsehood, And their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Till when, O Jehovah, have I cried, And Thou dost not hear? I cry unto Thee -- 'Violence,' and Thou dost not save.

And I have laid a charge on every one Who is leaping over the threshold in that day, Who are filling the house of their masters With violence and deceit.

Her heads in her midst are roaring lions, Her judges are evening wolves, They have not gnawn the bone in the morning.

General references

I declare thy righteousness, and thy works, And they do not profit thee.

and the Jews also agreed, professing these things to be so.