O you who are named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD restricted? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him who walks uprightly?
Therefore the LORD God of Israel says, I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD says, Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.