³⁹ And he spake a simile to them, `Is blind able to lead blind? shall they not both fall into a pit?

¹⁴ let them alone, guides they are -- blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'

¹³ and evil men and impostors shall advance to the worse, leading astray and being led astray.

³ if any one be teaching otherwise, and do not consent to sound words -- those of our Lord Jesus Christ -- and to the teaching according to piety,

⁴ he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings,

⁵ wranglings of men wholly corrupted in mind, and destitute of the truth, supposing the piety to be gain; depart from such;

¹⁶ `Wo to you, blind guides, who are saying, Whoever may swear by the sanctuary, it is nothing, but whoever may swear by the gold of the sanctuary -- is debtor!

¹⁷ Fools and blind! for which `is' greater, the gold, or the sanctuary that is sanctifying the gold?

¹⁸ `And, whoever may swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever may swear by the gift that is upon it -- is debtor!

¹⁹ Fools and blind! for which `is' greater, the gift, or the altar that is sanctifying the gift?

²⁰ `He therefore who did swear by the altar, doth swear by it, and by all things on it;

²¹ and he who did swear by the sanctuary, doth swear by it, and by Him who is dwelling in it;

²² and he who did swear by the heaven, doth swear by the throne of God, and by Him who is sitting upon it.

²³ `Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye give tithe of the mint, and the dill, and the cumin, and did neglect the weightier things of the Law -- the judgment, and the kindness, and the faith; these it behoved `you' to do, and those not to neglect.

²⁴ `Blind guides! who are straining out the gnat, and the camel are swallowing.

²⁵ `Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye make clean the outside of the cup and the plate, and within they are full of rapine and incontinence.

²⁶ `Blind Pharisee! cleanse first the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside of them also may become clean.

¹⁵ Therefore, thus said Jehovah concerning the prophets who are prophesying in My name, and I have not sent them, and they are saying, Sword and famine is not in this land: By sword and by famine are these prophets consumed.

¹⁶ And the people to whom they are prophesying, Are cast into out-places of Jerusalem, Because of the famine, and of the sword, And they have none burying them, Them, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, And I have poured out upon them this evil.

¹⁶ And the eulogists of this people are causing to err, And its eulogised ones are consumed.

¹⁹ and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of blind ones, a light of those in darkness,

³³ `Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna?

¹⁵ And Jehovah saith unto me, `Again take to thee the instrument of a foolish shepherd.

¹⁶ For lo, I am raising up a shepherd in the land, The cut off he doth not inspect, The shaken off he doth not seek, And the broken he doth not heal, The standing he doth not sustain, And the flesh of the fat he doth eat, And their hoofs he doth break off.

¹⁷ Wo `to' the worthless shepherd, forsaking the flock, A sword `is' on his arm, and on his right eye, His arm is utterly dried up, And his right eye is very dim!'

⁶ Therefore a night ye have without vision, And darkness ye have without divination, And gone in hath the sun on the prophets, And black over them hath been the day.

⁷ And ashamed have been the seers, And confounded have been the diviners, And covered their lip have all of them, For their is no answer, O God.

¹² They were ashamed when they did abomination! Yea, they are not at all ashamed, And blushing they have not known, Therefore, they do fall among falling ones, In the time of their inspection they stumble, said Jehovah.

¹⁵ They were ashamed when they did abomination! Yea, they are not at all ashamed, Yea, blushing they have not known, Therefore they do fall among those falling, In the time I have inspected them, They stumble, said Jehovah.

¹⁰ Blind `are' his watchmen -- all of them, They have not known, All of them `are' dumb dogs, they are not able to bark, Dozing, lying down, loving to slumber.