12 (A)Were I to write for him my laws by the ten thousands,
    they would be regarded as a strange thing.

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(A)Keep them and do them, for (B)that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’ For (C)what great nation is there that has (D)a god so near to it as the Lord our God is to us, whenever we call upon him? And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so (E)righteous as all this law that I set before you today?

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

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God's Righteousness Upheld

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

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

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11 (A)I gave them my statutes and made known to them my rules, (B)by which, if a person does them, he shall live.

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16 Thus says the Lord:
“Stand by the roads, and look,
    and ask for (A)the ancient paths,
where the good way is; and walk in it,
    (B)and find rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
17 (C)I set watchmen over you, saying,
    ‘Pay attention to (D)the sound of the trumpet!’
But they said, (E)‘We will not pay attention.’

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(A)For they are a rebellious people,
    lying children,
children unwilling to hear
    the instruction of the Lord;

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

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

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 147:19 Or and just decrees
  2. Psalm 147:20 Or his just decrees

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

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

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

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13 (A)You came down on Mount Sinai (B)and spoke with them from heaven and gave them (C)right rules and true laws, good statutes and commandments, 14 (D)and you made known to them your holy Sabbath and commanded them commandments and statutes and a law by Moses your servant.

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15 They despised his statutes (A)and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after (B)false idols (C)and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the (D)Lord had commanded them that they should not do like them. 16 And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves metal images of (E)two calves; and they (F)made an Asherah and (G)worshiped all the host of heaven and served (H)Baal.

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