'This is a people that honor me with their lips, While their hearts are far removed from me;

His answer was: "It was well said by Isaiah when he prophesied about you hypocrites in the words--'This is a people that honor me with their lips, While their hearts are far removed from me;

'Their throats are like opened graves; they deceive with their tongues.' 'The venom of serpents lies behind their lips,'

It is said in the Law-'In strange tongues and by the lips of strangers will I speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.'

Through him let us offer, as our sacrifice, continual praise to God--an offering from lips that glorify his Name.