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Mortal, speak to the elders of Israel, and say to them: Thus says the Lord God: Why are you coming? To consult me? As I live, says the Lord God, I will not be consulted by you.

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‘This people honors me with their lips,
    but their hearts are far from me;(A)
in vain do they worship me,
    teaching human precepts as doctrines.’ ”(B)

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the seers shall be disgraced
    and the diviners put to shame;
they shall all cover their lips,
    for there is no answer from God.(A)

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When one will not listen to the law,
    even one’s prayers are an abomination.(A)

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15 Call on me in the day of trouble;
    I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”(A)

16 But to the wicked God says,
    “What right have you to recite my statutes
    or take my covenant on your lips?(B)
17 For you hate discipline,
    and you cast my words behind you.(C)
18 You make friends with a thief when you see one,
    and you keep company with adulterers.(D)

19 You give your mouth free rein for evil,
    and your tongue frames deceit.
20 You sit and speak against your kin;
    you slander your own mother’s child.(E)
21 These things you have done, and I have been silent;
    you thought that I was one just like yourself.
But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.(F)

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24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”(A)

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John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?(A)

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But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his[a] baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 3.7 Other ancient authorities lack his

31 When you offer your gifts and make your children pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be consulted by you, O house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord God, I will not be consulted by you.(A)

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For any of those of the house of Israel or of the aliens who reside in Israel who separate themselves from me, taking their idols into their hearts and placing their iniquity as a stumbling block before them and yet come to a prophet to inquire of me by him, I the Lord will answer them myself.(A) I will set my face against them; I will make them a sign and a byword and cut them off from the midst of my people, and you shall know that I am the Lord.(B)

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Mortal, these men have taken their idols into their hearts and placed their iniquity as a stumbling block before them; shall I let myself be consulted by them?(A) Therefore speak to them, and say to them: Thus says the Lord God: Any of those of the house of Israel who take their idols into their hearts and place their iniquity as a stumbling block before them and yet come to the prophet, I the Lord will answer those who come with the multitude of their idols,

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15 When you stretch out your hands,
    I will hide my eyes from you;
even though you make many prayers,
    I will not listen;
    your hands are full of blood.(A)

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12 When you come to appear before me,[a]
    who asked this from your hand?
    Trample my courts no more!(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 1.12 Or see my face

27 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination;
    how much more when brought with evil intent.(A)

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The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,
    but the prayer of the upright is his delight.(A)

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When Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord did not answer him, not by dreams or by Urim or by prophets.(A)

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