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

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

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

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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 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 thirty sayings for you,
    sayings of counsel and knowledge,

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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 that I may see
    wonderful things in your law.

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

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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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13 “You came down on Mount Sinai;(A) you spoke(B) to them from heaven.(C) You gave them regulations and laws that are just(D) and right, and decrees and commands that are good.(E) 14 You made known to them your holy Sabbath(F) and gave them commands, decrees and laws through your servant Moses.

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15 They rejected his decrees and the covenant(A) he had made with their ancestors and the statutes he had warned them to keep. They followed worthless idols(B) and themselves became worthless.(C) They imitated the nations(D) around them although the Lord had ordered them, “Do not do as they do.”

16 They forsook all the commands of the Lord their God and made for themselves two idols cast in the shape of calves,(E) and an Asherah(F) pole. They bowed down to all the starry hosts,(G) and they worshiped Baal.(H)

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