² They will send up to me a cry for help: We, Israel, have knowledge of you, O God of Israel.

¹⁶ They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.

²¹ Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will go into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the pleasure of my Father in heaven.

⁴ The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:

²⁵ When the master of the house has got up, and the door has been shut, and you, still outside, give blows on the door, saying, Lord, let us in; he will make answer and say, I have no knowledge of where you come from.

¹¹ After that the other virgins came, saying, Lord, Lord, let us in.

¹¹ Its heads take rewards for judging, and the priests take payment for teaching, and the prophets get silver for reading the future: but still, supporting themselves on the Lord, they say, Is not the Lord among us? no evil will overtake us.

¹³ May trouble be theirs! for they have gone far away from me; and destruction, for they have been sinning against me; I was ready to be their saviour, but they said false words against me.

¹⁴ And they have not made prayer to me in their hearts, but they make loud cries on their beds; they are cutting themselves for food and wine, they are turned against me.

¹⁵ I will go back to my place till they are made waste; in their trouble they will go after me early and will make search for me.

⁴ Put no faith in false words, saying, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, are these.

¹ Give ear to this, O family of Jacob, you who are named by the name of Israel, and have come out of the body of Judah; who take oaths by the name of the Lord, and make use of the name of the God of Israel, but not truly and not in good faith.

² For they say that they are of the holy town, and put their faith in the God of Israel: the Lord of armies is his name.

³⁴ When he sent death on them, then they made search for him; turning to him and looking for him with care;

³⁵ In the memory that God was their Rock, and the Most High God their saviour.

³⁶ But their lips were false to him, and their tongues were untrue to him;

³⁷ And their hearts were not right with him, and they did not keep their agreement with him.

²⁹ But Jehu did not keep himself from all the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and the evil he made Israel do; the gold oxen were still in Beth-el and in Dan.

¹⁶ And he said, Come with me and see how I am on fire for the Lord's cause. So he made him go with him in his carriage.