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Isaiah 29:13

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The Lord said: These people approach me with their speeches to honour me with lip-service, yet their hearts are far from me, and human rules direct their worship of me.

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You planted them,  and they have taken root. They have grown and produced fruit. You are ever on their lips, but far from their conscience.  ,


Yet in spite of all this, her treacherous sister Judah didn’t return to me with all her heart   #– #only in pretence.’ This is the Lord’s declaration.


Don’t add to his words, or he will rebuke you, and you will be proved a liar.


All these regulations refer to what is destined to perish by being used up; they are human commands and doctrines.


When they say, ‘As the  Lord  lives,’ they are swearing falsely.


You have gone astray at the cost of your lives  because you are the ones who sent me to the Lord your God, saying, “Pray to the Lord our God on our behalf, and as for all that the Lord our God says, tell it to us, and we’ll act accordingly.”


I will send him against a godless nation; I will command him to go against a people destined for my rage, to take spoils, to plunder, and to trample them down like clay  in the streets.


Saul said, ‘I have sinned. Please honour me  now before the elders of my people and before Israel. Come back with me so I can bow in worship to the Lord your God.’


Woe to Ariel,  Ariel, the city where David camped! Continue year after year; let the festivals recur.


And if the document is given to one who cannot read and he is asked to read it,  he will say, ‘I can’t read.’


So he poured out his furious anger and the power of war on Jacob. It surrounded him with fire, but he did not know it; it burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.


Why, Lord, do you make us stray from your ways? You harden our hearts so that we do not fear   you. Return, because of your servants, the tribes of your heritage.


Some of the elders of Israel came  to me and sat down in front of me.


‘As for you, son of man, your people are talking about you near the city walls and in the doorways of their houses. One person speaks to another, each saying to his brother, “Come and hear what the message is that comes from the Lord! ”


Get out of the way! Leave the pathway. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel.’


They do not cry to me from their hearts; rather, they wail on their beds. They slash themselves  , for grain and new wine; they turn away from me.





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