In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.

And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.

We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:

Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.

Ye have caused

Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.

Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.

For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;

For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.

Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.

And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.

Ye have corrupted

My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.

Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.

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

General references

And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.