¹² I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned.

⁶ Cut off have been My people for lack of knowledge, Because thou knowledge hast rejected, I reject thee from being priest to Me, And thou forgettest the law of thy God, I forget thy sons, I also!

¹² so that the law, indeed, `is' holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.

¹ What, then, `is' the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of the circumcision?

¹¹ And I give to them My statutes, And my judgments I caused them to know, Which the man who doth -- liveth by them.

¹⁶ Thus said Jehovah: Stand ye by the ways and see, and ask for paths of old, Where `is' this -- the good way? and go ye in it, And find rest for yourselves. And they say, `We do not go.'

¹⁷ And I have raised up for you watchmen, Attend ye to the voice of the trumpet. And they say, `We do not attend.'

⁹ That a rebellious people `is' this, sons -- liars, Sons not willing to hear the law of Jehovah.

²⁰ Have I not written to thee three times With counsels and knowledge?

¹⁹ Declaring His words to Jacob, His statutes and His judgments to Israel.

²⁰ He hath not done so to any nation, As to judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye Jah!

¹⁸ Uncover mine eyes, and I behold wonders out of Thy law.

¹⁷ Yea, thou hast hated instruction, And dost cast My words behind thee.

²⁶ `And they are disobedient, and rebel against Thee, and cast Thy law behind their back, and Thy prophets they have slain, who testified against them, to bring them back unto Thee, and they do great despisings,

¹³ `And on mount Sinai Thou hast come down, even to speak with them from the heavens, and Thou dost give to them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commands.

¹⁴ And Thy holy sabbath Thou hast made known to them, and commands, and statutes, and law, Thou hast commanded for them, by the hand of Moses Thy servant;

¹⁵ and reject His statutes and His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His testimonies that He testified against them, and go after the vain thing, and become vain, and after the nations that are round about them, of whom Jehovah commanded them not to do like them;

¹⁶ And they forsake all the commands of Jehovah their God, and make to them a molten image -- two calves, and make a shrine, and bow themselves to all the host of the heavens, and serve Baal,

⁶ and ye have kept and done `them' (for it `is' your wisdom and your understanding) before the eyes of the peoples who hear all these statutes, and they have said, Only, a people wise and understanding `is' this great nation.

⁷ `For which `is' the great nation that hath God near unto it, as Jehovah our God, in all we have called unto him?

⁸ and which `is' the great nation which hath righteous statutes and judgments according to all this law which I am setting before you to-day?