Isaiah 29:13

Conservative English Version

The Lord has said: "These people praise me with their words, but they never really think about me. They worship me by repeating rules made up by humans.

Cross References

Psalm 17:1

(A prayer by David.) I am innocent, LORD! Won't you listen as I pray and beg for help? I am honest! Please hear my prayer.

Psalm 50:16

But to the wicked I say: "You don't have the right to mention my laws or claim to keep our agreement!

Proverbs 30:6

Don't change what God has said! He will correct you and show that you are a liar.

Isaiah 10:6

to beat down you godless people. I am angry with you, and I will send him to attack you. He will take what he wants and walk on you like mud in the streets.

Isaiah 29:1

Jerusalem, city of David, the place of my altar, you are in for trouble! Celebrate your festivals year after year.

Isaiah 29:12

Others say, "We can't read it, because we don't know how to read."

Isaiah 30:11

Stop telling us what God has said! We don't want to hear any more about the holy God of Israel.

Isaiah 42:25

He was furious with them and punished their nation with the fires of war. Still they paid no attention. They didn't even care when they were surrounded and scorched by flames.

Isaiah 63:17

Why did you make us turn away from you, our LORD? Why did you make us want to disobey you? Please change your mind! We are your servants, your very own people.

Jeremiah 12:2

You plant them like trees; you let them prosper and produce fruit. Yet even when they praise you, they don't mean it.

Jeremiah 3:10

And worst of all, the people of Judah pretended to come back to me.

Jeremiah 42:20

You asked me to pray and find out what the LORD our God wants you to do, and you promised to obey him. But that was a terrible mistake,

Jeremiah 5:2

Everyone breaks promises made in my name."

Ezekiel 14:1

One day, some of Israel's leaders came to me and asked for a message from the LORD.

Ezekiel 33:30

Ezekiel, son of man, the people with you in Babylonia talk about you when they meet by the city walls or in the doorways of their houses. They say, "Let's ask Ezekiel what the LORD has said today."

Hosea 7:14

They don't really pray to me; they just howl in their beds. They have rejected me for Baal and slashed themselves, in the hope that Baal will bless their crops.

Colossians 2:22

After these things are used, they are no longer good for anything. So why be bothered with the rules that humans have made up?

1 Samuel 15:30

Saul said, "I did sin, but please honor me in front of the leaders of the army and the people of Israel. Come back with me, so I can worship the LORD your God."