13 The Lord said:

Because these people approach Me with their mouths(A)
to honor Me with lip-service[a]
yet their hearts are far from Me,
and their worship consists of man-made rules
learned by rote—

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 29:13 Lit their mouth and honor Me with its lips

You said, ‘I will be the mistress forever.’
You did not take these things to heart
or think about their outcome.

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57 The righteous one perishes,
and no one takes it to heart;
faithful men are swept away,
with no one realizing
that the righteous one is swept away
from the presence[a] of evil.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 57:1 Or away because

11 They have made it a desolation.
It mourns, desolate, before Me.
All the land is desolate,
but no one takes it to heart.(A)

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Foreigners consume his strength,(A)
but he does not notice.(B)
Even his hair is streaked with gray,
but he does not notice.

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