Isaiah 59:6

Their flimsy webs cannot clothe or cover them; their works are iniquity and violence. Human works of sin provide no real covering before God.

Cross-references · 25

• Jer 6:7As a well produces its waters, so she produces her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.
• Isa 57:12I will declare your righteousness; and as for your works, they will not benefit you.
• Rev 3:17–18Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
• Isa 30:1“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,
• Rom 4:6–8Even as David also pronounces blessing on the man to whom God counts righteousness apart from works,
• Isa 64:6For we have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
• Isa 28:18–20Your covenant with death shall be annulled, and your agreement with Sheol shall not stand. When the overflowing scourge passes through, then you will be trampled down by it.
• Isa 5:7For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
• Job 8:14–15Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider’s web.
• Amos 3:10“Indeed they don’t know to do right,” says Yahweh, “Who hoard plunder and loot in their palaces.”
• Amos 6:3Those who put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence to come near;
• Ezek 7:23“‘Make chains; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.
• Ezek 7:11Violence has risen up into a rod of wickedness. None of them will remain, nor of their multitude, nor of their wealth. There shall be nothing of value among them.
• Mic 6:12Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.
• Mic 3:1–11I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice?
• Mic 2:1–3Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
• Mic 2:8But lately my people have risen up as an enemy. You strip the robe and clothing from those who pass by without a care, returning from battle.
• Zeph 1:9In that day, I will punish all those who leap over the threshold, who fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.
• Zeph 3:3–4Her princes within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.
• Hab 1:2–4Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?
• Gen 6:11The earth was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
• Ps 58:2No, in your heart you plot injustice. You measure out the violence of your hands in the earth.
• Rom 3:20–22Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight. For through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
• Isa 30:12–14Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, “Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on it;
• Isa 58:4Behold, you fast for strife and contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness. You don’t fast today so as to make your voice to be heard on high.

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