in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and going away from our God, talking cruelty and revolt, conceiving and speaking from the heart words of falsehood.

So says Jehovah, Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from Jehovah.

But the Levites who have gone far away from Me, when Israel went astray; those who went astray 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 Your commandments and from Your judgments.

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

Ye have caused

Therefore I have also made you despised and low before all the people, just as you have not kept My ways but are lifting up faces in the law.

And the sin of the young men was very great before Jehovah. For men despised the offering of Jehovah.

For the leaders of this people led them astray; and their guided ones are swallowed up.

Because My people have forgotten Me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused themselves to stumble in their ways from the old paths, to walk in by-paths, not in the highway,

For both prophet and priest are ungodly; yes, in My house I have found their evil, says Jehovah.

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

And one of the lawyers answered and said to Him, Master, you reproach us also when you say this.

and persuading yourselves to be a guide of the blind, a light to those in darkness;

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything by which your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is made weak.

Ye have corrupted

My covenant with him was life and peace, and I gave them to him for fear; and he feared Me, and he is awed before My name.

And he shall not defile his seed among his people. For I, Jehovah, 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 to all the men of Israel with a loud voice,

And they shall teach My people to discern between the holy and common, and between the unclean and the clean.