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12 Though I write for him the multitude of my instructions,
    they are regarded as a strange thing.(A)

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12 I wrote for them the many things of my law,
    but they regarded them as something foreign.(A)

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You must observe them and perform them, for this will show your wisdom and discernment to the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and discerning people!’(A) For what other great nation has a god so near to it as the Lord our God is whenever we call to him?(B) And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this entire law that I am setting before you today?

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Observe(A) them carefully, for this will show your wisdom(B) and understanding to the nations, who will hear about all these decrees and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.”(C) What other nation is so great(D) as to have their gods near(E) them the way the Lord our God is near us whenever we pray to him? And what other nation is so great as to have such righteous decrees and laws(F) as this body of laws I am setting before you today?

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12 So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.(A)

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12 So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good.(A)

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Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision?

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God’s Faithfulness

What advantage, then, is there in being a Jew, or what value is there in circumcision?

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My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge!
    Because you have rejected knowledge,
    I reject you from being a priest to me;
and since you have forgotten the law of your God,
    I also will forget your children.(A)

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    my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.(A)

“Because you have rejected knowledge,
    I also reject you as my priests;
because you have ignored the law(B) of your God,
    I also will ignore your children.

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11 I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, by whose observance everyone shall live.(A)

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11 I gave them my decrees and made known to them my laws, by which the person who obeys them will live.(A)

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16 Thus says the Lord:
Stand at the crossroads and look,
    and ask for the ancient paths,
where the good way lies; and walk in it,
    and find rest for your souls.
But they said, “We will not walk in it.”(A)
17 Also I raised up sentinels for you:
    “Give heed to the sound of the trumpet!”
But they said, “We will not give heed.”(B)

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16 This is what the Lord says:

“Stand at the crossroads and look;
    ask for the ancient paths,(A)
ask where the good way(B) is, and walk in it,
    and you will find rest(C) for your souls.
    But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
17 I appointed watchmen(D) over you and said,
    ‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’(E)
    But you said, ‘We will not listen.’(F)

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For they are a rebellious people,
    faithless children,
children who will not hear
    the instruction of the Lord;(A)

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For these are rebellious(A) people, deceitful(B) children,
    children unwilling to listen to the Lord’s instruction.(C)

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20 Have I not written for you thirty[a] sayings
    of admonition and knowledge,(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 22.20 Cn: Heb in the past or noble

20 Have I not written thirty sayings for you,
    sayings of counsel and knowledge,

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19 He declares his word to Jacob,
    his statutes and ordinances to Israel.(A)
20 He has not dealt thus with any other nation;
    they do not know his ordinances.
Praise the Lord!(B)

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19 He has revealed his word(A) to Jacob,(B)
    his laws and decrees(C) to Israel.
20 He has done this for no other nation;(D)
    they do not know(E) his laws.[a]

Praise the Lord.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 147:20 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint nation; / he has not made his laws known to them

18 Open my eyes, so that I may behold
    wondrous things out of your law.

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18 Open my eyes that I may see
    wonderful things in your law.

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17 For you hate discipline,
    and you cast my words behind you.(A)

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17 You hate(A) my instruction
    and cast my words behind(B) you.

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26 “Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their backs and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.(A)

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26 “But they were disobedient and rebelled against you; they turned their backs on your law.(A) They killed(B) your prophets,(C) who had warned them in order to turn them back to you; they committed awful blasphemies.(D)

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