"Therefore be careful to observe [them;] for this [is] your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes, and say, 'Surely this great nation [is] a wise and understanding people.'

"And what great nation [is there] that has [such] statutes and righteous judgments as are in all this law which I set before you this day?

"You came down also on Mount Sinai, And spoke with them from heaven, And gave them just ordinances and true laws, Good statutes and commandments.

You made known to them Your holy Sabbath, And commanded them precepts, statutes and laws, By the hand of Moses Your servant.

Open my eyes, that I may see Wondrous things from Your law.

He declares His word to Jacob, His statutes and His judgments to Israel.

He has not dealt thus with any nation; And [as for His] judgments, they have not known them. Praise the LORD!

Have I not written to you excellent things Of counsels and knowledge,

"And I gave them My statutes and showed them My judgments, 'which, [if] a man does, he shall live by them.'

What advantage then has the Jew, or what [is] the profit of circumcision?

Therefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy and just and good.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

And they rejected His statutes and His covenant that He had made with their fathers, and His testimonies which He had testified against them; they followed idols, became idolaters, and [went] after the nations who [were] all around them, [concerning] whom the LORD had charged them that they should not do like them.

So they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, made for themselves a molded image [and] two calves, made a wooden image and worshiped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

" Nevertheless they were disobedient And rebelled against You, Cast Your law behind their backs And killed Your prophets, who testified against them To turn them to Yourself; And they worked great provocations.

Seeing you hate instruction And cast My words behind you?

That this [is] a rebellious people, Lying children, Children [who] will not hear the law of the LORD;

Thus says the LORD: "Stand in the ways and see, And ask for the old paths, where the good way [is,] And walk in it; Then you will find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk [in it.']

Also, I set watchmen over you, [saying,] 'Listen to the sound of the trumpet!' But they said, 'We will not listen.'