The Lord says: "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men."

For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; it is he who will save us.

The poor and needy search for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. But I the LORD will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs.

I do not whisper obscurities in some dark corner. I would not have told the people of Israel to seek me if I could not be found. I, the Lord, speak only what is true and declare only what is right.

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils.

Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, the LORD, is the Rock eternal.

What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches?