transgressing, and denying the LORD, and turning back from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.

Thus says the LORD: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD.

But the Levites who went far from me, going astray from me after their idols when Israel went astray, shall bear their punishment.

we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules.

Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.

Ye have caused

and so I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you do not keep my ways but show partiality in your instruction."

Thus the sin of the young men was very great in the sight of the LORD, for the men treated the offering of the LORD with contempt.

for those who guide this people have been leading them astray, and those who are guided by them are swallowed up.

But my people have forgotten me; they make offerings to false gods; they made them stumble in their ways, in the ancient roads, and to walk into side roads, not the highway,

"Both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in my house I have found their evil, declares the LORD.

"Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat."

One of the lawyers answered him, "Teacher, in saying these things you insult us also."

and if you are sure that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

Ye have corrupted

My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him. It was a covenant of fear, and he feared me. He stood in awe of my name.

that he may not profane his offspring among his people, for I am the LORD who sanctifies him."

Remember them, O my God, because they have desecrated the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

General references

And the Levites shall declare to all the men of Israel in a loud voice:

They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.