Hear a just cause, O Lord; attend to my cry! Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit!
Isaiah 29:13 - Revised Standard Version And the Lord said: “Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men learned by rote; Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wherefore the Lord 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: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near Me with their mouth and honor Me with their lips but remove their hearts and minds far from Me, and their fear and reverence for Me are a commandment of men that is learned by repetition [without any thought as to the meaning], American Standard Version (1901) And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw nigh unto me, and with their mouth and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which hath been taught them; Common English Bible The Lord says: Since these people turn toward me with their mouths, and honor me with lip service while their heart is distant from me, and their fear of me is just a human command that has been memorized, Catholic Public Domain Version And the Lord said: Since this people have drawn near to me only with their mouth, and their lips glorify me while their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is based on the commandments and doctrines of men, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the Lord said: Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips glorify me, but their heart is far from me, and they have feared me with the commandment and doctrines of men: |
Hear a just cause, O Lord; attend to my cry! Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit!
But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to recite my statutes, or take my covenant on your lips?
Do not add to his words, lest he rebuke you, and you be found a liar.
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.
Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts run their round.
And when they give the book to one who cannot read, saying, “Read this,” he says, “I cannot read.”
leave the way, turn aside from the path, let us hear no more of the Holy One of Israel.”
So he poured upon him the heat of his anger and the might of battle; it set him on fire round about, but he did not understand; it burned him, but he did not take it to heart.
O Lord, why dost thou make us err from thy ways and harden our heart, so that we fear thee not? Return for the sake of thy servants, the tribes of thy heritage.
Thou plantest them, and they take root; they grow and bring forth fruit; thou art near in their mouth and far from their heart.
Yet for all this her false sister Judah did not return to me with her whole heart, but in pretense, says the Lord.”
that you have gone astray at the cost of your lives. For you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to the Lord our God, and whatever the Lord our God says declare to us and we will do it.’
“As for you, son of man, your people who talk together about you by the walls and at the doors of the houses, say to one another, each to his brother, ‘Come, and hear what the word is that comes forth from the Lord.’
They do not cry to me from the heart, but they wail upon their beds; for grain and wine they gash themselves, they rebel against me.
(referring to things which all perish as they are used), according to human precepts and doctrines?
Then he said, “I have sinned; yet honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may worship the Lord your God.”