Isaiah 57:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

I will declare thy righteousness - This is evidently spoken ironically. The sense is, ‘you have devoted yourselves to idols, and you have sought the aid of foreigners. I will now announce to you the true nature of the deliverance which they can bring to you.’ This is done in the following verse.

Isaiah 57:12

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