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13 The Lord said:

These people approach me with their speeches(A)
to honour me with lip-service,[a]
yet their hearts are far from me,
and human rules direct their worship of me.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 29:13 Lit their mouth and honour me with its lips
  2. 29:13 Lit their fearing of me is a taught command of men

You said, “I will be the queen for ever.”
You did not take these things to heart
or think about their outcome.

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57 The righteous person perishes,
and no one takes it to heart;
the faithful are taken away,
with no one realising
that the righteous person is taken away
because of[a] evil.

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Footnotes

  1. 57:1 Or taken away from the presence of

11 They have made it a desolation.
It mourns, desolate, before me.
All the land is desolate,
but no one takes it to heart.(A)

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Foreigners consume his strength,(A)
but he does not notice.(B)
Even his hair is streaked with grey,
but he does not notice.

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