¹² I wrote for him the many things of my law; But they were regarded as a strange thing.

⁶ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, That you may be no priest to me. Because you have your God's law, I will also forget your children.

¹² Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.

¹ Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision?

¹¹ I gave them my statutes, and shown them my ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live in them.

¹⁶ Thus says Yahweh, Stand you in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way; and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls: but they said, We will not walk [therein].

¹⁷ I set watchmen over you, [saying], Listen to the sound of the trumpet; but they said, We will not listen.

⁹ For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of Yahweh;

²⁰ Haven't I written to you thirty excellent things Of counsel and knowledge,

¹⁹ He shows his word to Jacob; His statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

²⁰ He has not done this for just any nation. They don't know his ordinances. Praise Yah!

¹⁸ Open my eyes, That I may see wondrous things out of your law.

¹⁷ Seeing you hate instruction, And throw my words behind you?

²⁶ Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.

¹³ You came down also on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,

¹⁴ and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, and statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant,

¹⁵ They rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and [went] after the nations that were round about them, concerning whom Yahweh had charged those who they should not do like them.

¹⁶ They forsook all the commandments of Yahweh their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the host of the sky, and served Baal.

⁶ Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

⁷ For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?

⁸ What great nation is there, that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?