“Thus Yehovah [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] said: Because this people has come near with their mouth and has honored Me with their lips, but their heart is far from me”
For what reason the Lord-Adonai (The Father) [Greatest Above All Things] said, Forasmuch as this people draw near [me] with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
And they come unto youi as the people comes, and they sit before youi [as] my people, and they hear youri words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they show much love, [but] their heart goes after their covetousness.
Youi have planted them, yes, they have taken root: they grow, yes, they bring forth fruit: youi [are] near in their mouth, and far from their reins (literally, kidneys; figuratively, seat of emotion).
He answered and said unto them, Well has Yesha’yahu [Yah is salvation] prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honours me with [their] lips, but their heart is far from me.