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I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they shall not profit you.
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A Sarcastic Rebuke
Commentators unanimously explain that God's statement, 'I will declare thy righteousness,' is deeply ironic. He is not praising the people but sarcastically exposing the true, worthless nature of their actions—like idol worship and foreign alliances—which they considered righteous. God is about to reveal these works as a complete sham.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
I will declare thy righteousness - This is evidently spoken ironically. The sense is, ‘you have devoted yourselves to idols, and yo…
19th Century
Anglican
I will declare thy righteousness ... —Accepting the Hebrew text, we must look on the word as used ironically, the righteo…
Baptist
I will declare your righteousness, and your works; for they shall not profit you.
If God ever takes the self-righteous man's righte…
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16th Century
Protestant
I will declare thy righteousness. The Prophet affirms that the Lord will no longer endure what he formerly endured, and that from now on h…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
I will declare thy righteousness, and thy works For, notwithstanding all the idolatry, superstition, irreligion, and crue…
The Lord here calls apostates and hypocrites to appear before him. When reproved for their sins, and threatened with judgments, they ridiculed the …
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13th Century
Catholic
The just perishes. Here the prophet shows the difference between those who obey God’s counsels and those who do not, conc…
