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Iאֲנִיwill declareאַגִּידyour righteousnessצִדְקָתֵךְand your works,וְאֶת מַעֲשַׂיִךְand they will notוְלֹאprofit you.יוֹעִילוּךְ
Isaiah 57:12
Study it in the app“I will declare your righteousness and your works, and they will not profit you.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Isaiah 57:12, word by word
- will declareאַגִּידagid
declare
To announce what God does or will do.
Where else “agid” appears- your righteousnessצִדְקָתֵtsidkate
righteous deeds
Doing what is just, upright deeds.
Where else “tsidkate” appears- and your worksמַעֲשַׂיִmaasayi
work
What someone does: his works, and especially what God does.
Where else “maasayi” appears- profit youיוֹעִילוּyoilu
profit, be useful
To profit, to be of use, to serve for something.
Where else “yoilu” appears
The context
11And of whom were you anxious and afraid, that you lied, and me you did not remember, nor laid it on your heart? Is it not that I have been silent, even from long ago, and so me you do not fear?
12 · This verse (above)
13When you cry out, let your collections of idols deliver you; and all of them the wind will carry off, a vapor will take them; but whoever takes refuge in me will inherit the land, and will possess my holy mountain.”