Thus sayeth the LORD, "Go into the streets, consider and make inquisition for the old way: and if it be the good and right way, then go therein, that ye may find rest for your souls. But they say, 'We will not walk therein.'

But my people hath so forgotten me, that they have made sacrifice unto vain gods. And while they followed their own ways they are come out of the high street, and gone into a foot way not used to be trodden.

If any man want light, let him look upon the law and the testimony whether they speak not after this meaning.

Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I committed unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and ordinances.

Abraham said unto him, 'They have Moses and the prophets: let them hear them.'

"This shall bring rest, if one refresh the weary, yea this shall bring rest." But they had no will to hear.

but this I commanded them, saying, 'Hearken and obey my voice, and I shall be your God, and ye shall be my people: so that ye walk in all the ways, which I have commanded you, that ye may prosper.'

Remember the days that are past: consider the years from time to time. Ask thy father and he will show thee; thine elders, and they will tell thee.

Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest the sheep, where thou maketh the rest at the noon day: for why shall I be like him that goeth wrong about the flocks of thy companions?

O house of Jacob, come and let us walk in the light of the LORD.

and thine ears hearken to his word that cryeth after thee and sayeth, "This is the way. Walk ye in it. Turn not aside; neither to the righthand nor to the left."

Thou keepest thy foot from nakedness, and thy throat from thirst, and thinkest thus in thyself, 'Tush: I will take no sorrow; I will love the strange gods, and hang upon them.'

But they say, 'No more of this, we will follow our own imaginations, and do every man according to the wilfulness of his own mind.'

I gave thee warning, while thou wast yet in prosperity. But thou saidst, 'I will not hear.' And this manner hast thou used from thy youth, that thou wouldest never hear my voice.

"As for the words that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will in no wise hear them:

Come unto me all ye that labor, and are laden, and I will ease you.

"What say ye to this? A certain man had two sons, and came to the elder and said, 'Son, go and work today in my vineyard.'

Search the scriptures: for in them, ye think ye have eternal life; and they are they which testify of me.

For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: For he wrote of me.

Then Jesus said unto them, "Yet a little while is the light with you: walk while ye have light, lest the darkness come on you. He that walketh in the dark, knoweth not whither he goeth.

If ye understand these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

These were the noblest of birth among them of Thessalonica, which received the word with all diligence of mind, and searched the scriptures daily whether those things were even so.

What shall we say, then, that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, did find?

And that he might be the father of the circumcised: not because they are circumcised only: but because they walk also in the steps of that faith, that was in our father Abraham before the time of circumcision.

As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, even so walk rooted and built in him,

that ye faint not, but follow them which through faith and patience inherit the promises.

By it the elders were well reported of.

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Summary

Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.

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Stand

But my people hath so forgotten me, that they have made sacrifice unto vain gods. And while they followed their own ways they are come out of the high street, and gone into a foot way not used to be trodden.
Remember the days that are past: consider the years from time to time. Ask thy father and he will show thee; thine elders, and they will tell thee.
Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest the sheep, where thou maketh the rest at the noon day: for why shall I be like him that goeth wrong about the flocks of thy companions?
If any man want light, let him look upon the law and the testimony whether they speak not after this meaning.
Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I committed unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and ordinances.
Abraham said unto him, 'They have Moses and the prophets: let them hear them.'
Search the scriptures: for in them, ye think ye have eternal life; and they are they which testify of me.
These were the noblest of birth among them of Thessalonica, which received the word with all diligence of mind, and searched the scriptures daily whether those things were even so.
What shall we say, then, that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, did find?
that ye faint not, but follow them which through faith and patience inherit the promises.
By it the elders were well reported of.
Wherefore let us also - seeing that we are compassed with so great a multitude of witnesses - lay away all that presseth down, and the sin that hangeth on us, and let us run with patience, unto the battle that is set before us,

And walk

but this I commanded them, saying, 'Hearken and obey my voice, and I shall be your God, and ye shall be my people: so that ye walk in all the ways, which I have commanded you, that ye may prosper.'
O house of Jacob, come and let us walk in the light of the LORD.
and thine ears hearken to his word that cryeth after thee and sayeth, "This is the way. Walk ye in it. Turn not aside; neither to the righthand nor to the left."
Then Jesus said unto them, "Yet a little while is the light with you: walk while ye have light, lest the darkness come on you. He that walketh in the dark, knoweth not whither he goeth.
If ye understand these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, even so walk rooted and built in him,

We will

Thou keepest thy foot from nakedness, and thy throat from thirst, and thinkest thus in thyself, 'Tush: I will take no sorrow; I will love the strange gods, and hang upon them.'
But they say, 'No more of this, we will follow our own imaginations, and do every man according to the wilfulness of his own mind.'
I gave thee warning, while thou wast yet in prosperity. But thou saidst, 'I will not hear.' And this manner hast thou used from thy youth, that thou wouldest never hear my voice.
"As for the words that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will in no wise hear them:
"What say ye to this? A certain man had two sons, and came to the elder and said, 'Son, go and work today in my vineyard.'

General references

Show me thy ways, O LORD, and teach me thy paths.
Then shalt thou understand righteousness, judgment and equity - yea, and every good path.
that the LORD thy God may show us a way to go in, and tell us what we should do."
Also no man that drinketh old wine, straightway can away with new, for he sayeth: the old is pleasanter."
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