To: ALL WHO HAVE EARS TO HEAR
From; GOD THE FATHER, THE
LORD JESUS CHRIST HIS SON and Ministered through the HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD,
The Helper, that He may be with you forever. [John 14:16 ]
Subject: MY WORD
13And so the
Lord says, “Since these people say they are mine but they do not obey me, and since their worship amounts to mere words
learned by rote, 14therefore I will take awesome vengeance on
these hypocrites and make their wisest counselors as fools.”
15Woe to those
who try to hide their plans from God, who try to keep him in the dark
concerning what they do! “God can’t see us,” they say to themselves. “He
doesn’t know what is going on!” 16How stupid can they be! Isn’t he,
the Potter, greater than you, the jars he makes? Will you say to him, “He
didn’t make us”? Does a machine call its inventor dumb?
13 And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near Me with
their mouth and honor Me with their lips but remove their hearts and
minds far from Me, and their fear and
reverence for Me are a commandment of men that is learned by repetition
[without any thought as to the meaning],
14 Therefore, behold! I will again do marvelous things with this
people, marvelous and astonishing things; and the wisdom of their wise men will
perish, and the understanding of their discerning men will vanish or be
hidden.
15 Woe to those who [seek to] hide deep from the Lord their
counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? Who knows us?
16 [Oh, your perversity!] You turn things upside down! Shall the
potter be considered of no more account than the clay? Shall the thing that is
made say of its maker, He did not make me; or the thing that is formed say of
him who formed it, He has no understanding?
13My Lord said:
Because that people has approached [Me]
with its mouth
And honored Me with its lips,
But has kept its heart far from Me,
And
its worship of Me has been
A
commandment of men, learned by rote—
14Truly, I shall further baffle that people
With bafflement upon bafflement;
And the wisdom of its wise shall fail,
And the prudence of its prudent shall
vanish.
15Ha! Those who would hide their plans
Deep from the Lord!
Who do their work in dark places
And say, “Who sees us, who takes note of
us?”
16How perverse of you!
Should the potter be accounted as the clay?
Should what is made say of its Maker,
“He did not make me,”
And what is formed say of Him who formed
it,
“He did not understand?”
13 Then
the Lord said,
“Because this people draw near with their
words
And honor Me with their lip service,
But they remove their hearts far from Me
And their
reverence for Me consists of tradition learned by rote,
14 Therefore behold, I will once again
deal marvelously with this people, wondrously marvelous;
And the wisdom of their wise men will
perish,
And the discernment of their discerning men
will be concealed.”
15 Woe
to those who deeply hide their plans from the Lord,
And whose deeds are done in a dark
place,
And they say, “Who sees us?” or “Who knows
us?”
16 You turn things around!
Shall the potter be considered as equal
with the clay,
That what is made would say to its maker,
“He did not make me”;
Or what is formed say to him who formed it,
“He has no understanding”?
7 You pretenders (hypocrites)! Admirably and truly did
Isaiah prophesy of you when he said:
8 These people draw near Me with their mouths and honor Me
with their lips, but their hearts hold off and are far away from Me.
9 Uselessly do they worship
Me, for they teach as doctrines the commands of men. [Isa. 29:13 .]
