Know that their heart is ashes, and they err, and no one is able to deliver his soul; see, you will not say, [There is a] lie in my right hand.

For My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn out for themselves broken cisterns, which will not be able to hold water.

For they sowed blighted [seed], and their destruction shall await them, a sheaf of corn that avails not to make meal; and even if it should produce it, strangers shall devour it.

But Ephraim is an evil spirit, he has chased the east wind all the day. He has multiplied empty and vain things, and made a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil has gone in the way of traffic into Egypt.

Are not these things of the Lord Almighty? Surely many people have been exhausted in the fire, and many nations have fainted.

And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'"

Then he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

And he was longing to fill his stomach with the carob pods which the swine were eating, and no one gave him anything.

but Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not attain to the law of righteousness.

For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

For they, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

although I also [am] having confidence in the flesh. If any other [person] thinks to have confidence in the flesh, I even more:

with respect to zeal, persecuting the church; with respect to righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

Do not be carried away with various and strange doctrines. For it is good [for] the heart to be established by grace, not by foods, by which those having walked were not profited.

They that furnish gold out of a purse, and silver by weight, will weigh it in a scale, and they hire a goldsmith and make idols, and bow down, and worship them.

Hearken to Me, you that follow after righteousness, and seek the Lord; look to the solid rock, which you have hewn, and to the hole of the pit which you have dug.

Hear Me, hear Me, My people; and you kings, hearken to Me; for a law shall proceed from Me, and My judgment [shall be] for a light of the nations.

Hear Me, you that know judgment, the people in whose heart is My law; fear not the reproach of men, and be not overcome by their contempt.

and said, If you will indeed hear the voice of the Lord your God, and do the things pleasing before Him, and will heed His commands, and keep all His ordinances, no disease which I have brought upon the Egyptians will I bring upon you, for I am the Lord your God that heals you.

Now if you will indeed hearken to all the commandments which I charge you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve Him with all your heart, and with all your soul,

Come, you children, hear me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

But he that listens to me shall dwell in confidence, and shall rest securely from all evil.

and he hastens as a bird into a snare, not knowing that he is running for his life.

Now then, [my] son, hear me: blessed is the man who shall listen to me, and the mortal who shall keep my ways;

And having summoned all the crowd, He said to them, "Hear Me, all [of you] and understand:

So then faith [comes] by hearing, and hearing by [the] word of God.

And the Lord of hosts shall make [a feast] for all the nations; on this mount they shall drink gladness, they shall drink wine;

The poor shall eat and be satisfied; and they shall praise the Lord that seek Him; their heart shall live forever.

They shall be fully satisfied with the fatness of Your house; and You shall cause them to drink of the full stream of Your delights.

Let my soul be filled as with marrow and fatness; and [my] joyful lips shall praise Your name.

Come, eat of my bread, and drink wine which I have mingled for you.

I will expand and cheer with wine the soul of the priests, the sons of Levi, and My people shall be satisfied with My good things. Thus says the Lord.

Again, he sent out other servants, saying, 'Say to those who are invited, "See, I have prepared my dinner; my oxen and fatted cattle are killed, and all things [are] ready. Come to the wedding."'

And bring the fatted calf here and slaughter it, and let us eat and be merry;

I am the bread of life.

This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die.

Therefore the Jews were contending with one another, saying, "How can this Man give us His flesh to eat?"

Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up in the last day.

He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.

This is the bread which came down from heaven, not as your fathers ate the manna, and died. He that eats this bread shall live forever."