“Therefore I have also made y’all despised and humiliated before all the people, because y’all have not kept my ways, but have had shown partiality in matters of the law.
“Therefore YHWH, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said-said that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now YHWH says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.
Y’all must not show partiality in judgment. Y’all are to listen to the small and the great alike. Y’all must not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. If a case is too hard for y’all, y’all may bring to me, and I will hear it.”
As for the respected ones—whatever they were makes no difference to me; God isn’t taken by the faces of humans—the respected ones imparted nothing to me.
But woe to y’all Pharisees! For y’all tithe mint and rue and every kind of herb, but y’all skip past justice and the love of God. Y’all should have done these things without neglecting the others.
But y’all have turned away from the path. Y’all have caused many to stumble in the law. Y’all have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says YHWH Almighty.
I will also tear off y’all’s veils and deliver my people from y’all’s hand. They will no longer be in y’all’s hand to be hunted. Then y’all will know that I am YHWH.
Mischief will come on mischief, and rumor will be on rumor. They will seek a vision of the prophet; but the law will perish from the priest, and counsel from the elders.
Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money; yet they lean on YHWH, and say, “Isn’t YHWH among us? No disaster will come on us.”