Isaiah 29:13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The Lord said: Because these people draw near with their mouths and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me and their worship of me is a human commandment learned by rote,

Cross References

Psalm 17:1

Hear a just cause, O Lord; attend to my cry; give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit.

Psalm 50:16

But to the wicked God says, “What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips?

Proverbs 30:6

Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you, and you be found a liar.

Isaiah 10:6

Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Isaiah 29:1

Woe to Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the festivals run their round.

Isaiah 29:12

And if it is given to those who cannot read, saying, “Read this,” they say, “We cannot read.”

Isaiah 30:11

leave the way; turn aside from the path; let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.”

Isaiah 42:25

So he poured upon him the heat of his anger and the fury of war; it set him on fire all around, but he did not understand; it burned him, but he did not take it to heart.

Isaiah 63:17

Why, O Lord, do you let us stray from your ways and let our heart harden, so that we do not fear you? Turn back for the sake of your servants, the tribes that are your heritage.

Jeremiah 12:2

You plant them, and they take root; they grow and bring forth fruit; you are near in their mouths yet far from their hearts.

Jeremiah 3:10

Yet for all this her false sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart but only in pretense, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 42:20

that you have made a fatal mistake. For you yourselves sent me to the Lord your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to the Lord our God, and whatever the Lord our God says, tell us, and we will do it.’

Jeremiah 5:2

Although they say, “As the Lord lives,” yet they swear falsely.

Ezekiel 14:1

Certain elders of Israel came to me and sat down before me.

Ezekiel 33:30

As for you, mortal, your people who talk together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses say to one another, each to a neighbor, “Come and hear what the word is that comes from the Lord.”

Hosea 7:14

They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon their beds; they gash themselves for grain and wine; they rebel against me.

Colossians 2:22

All these regulations refer to things that perish with use; they are simply human commands and teachings.

1 Samuel 15:30

Then Saul said, “I have sinned; yet honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, so that I may worship the Lord your God.”