Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: 'I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,'but now the LORD declares: 'Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Therefore it shall be night to you, without vision, and darkness to you, without divination. The sun shall go down on the prophets, and the day shall be black over them;

Before

And Micaiah said, "If you return in peace, the LORD has not spoken by me." And he said, "Hear, all you peoples!"

And Jeremiah the prophet said to the prophet Hananiah, "Listen, Hananiah, the LORD has not sent you, and you have made this people trust in a lie.

Hear the word of the LORD, all you exiles whom I sent away from Jerusalem to Babylon:

And when the wall falls, will it not be said to you, 'Where is the coating with which you smeared it?'

thus making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do."

And in the hearing of all the people he said to his disciples,

But

But you have turned aside from the way. You have caused many to stumble by your instruction. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the LORD of hosts,

"You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.'

And he said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. If you would enter life, keep the commandments."

You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men."

But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"

"But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

What then shall we say? That the law is sin? By no means! Yet if it had not been for the law, I would not have known sin. For I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, "You shall not covet."

Have been partial in

You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.'

General references

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

Will you show partiality toward him? Will you plead the case for God?

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.