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13 And so the Lord says,
    “These people say they are mine.
They honor me with their lips,
    but their hearts are far from me.
And their worship of me
    is nothing but man-made rules learned by rote.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 29:13 Greek version reads Their worship is a farce, / for they teach man-made ideas as commands from God. Compare Mark 7:7.

A Rebuke of Hypocritical Worship

13 Then the Lord said:

“Because these people draw near with their mouths
    and honor me with their lips,
        but their hearts are far from me,
worship of me[a] has become
    merely like[b] rules taught by human beings.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 29:13 So 1QIsaa; MT reads Their worship of me
  2. Isaiah 29:13 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack like