Isaiah 9:16

“Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat.

“This shall be an everlasting statute for you, to make atonement for the children of Israel once in the year because of all their sins.” It was done as Yahweh commanded Moses.

Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning!

He will say, “Build up, build up, prepare the way! Remove the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.”

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” says Yahweh.

“Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;

But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins.

Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel, and the ground which you have given us, as you swore to our fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.”

Omri did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and dealt wickedly above all who were before him.

A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

The priests didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh?’ and those who handle the law didn’t know me. The rulers also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal and followed things that do not profit.

“Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.

They are vanity, a work of delusion. In the time of their visitation they will perish.

“We are confounded, because we have heard reproach. Confusion has covered our faces, for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh’s house.”

that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

They won’t defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. So they will be my people, and I will be their God.

Because of this, he must offer sacrifices for sins for the people, as well as for himself.

nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest enters into the holy place year by year with blood not his own,

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

Aaron shall make atonement on its horns once in the year; with the blood of the sin offering of atonement once in the year he shall make atonement for it throughout your generations. It is most holy to Yahweh.”

Moses saw all the work, and behold, they had done it as Yahweh had commanded. They had done so; and Moses blessed them.

“Aaron shall offer the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house.

They have shed their blood like water around Jerusalem. There was no one to bury them.

Therefore he swore to them that he would overthrow them in the wilderness,

Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

I will give boys to be their princes, and children shall rule over them.

As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths.

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

The dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth. No one will frighten them away.

to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head.

“I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria. They prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths. So I am profaned among them.

It shall be for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my instruction, who didn’t go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.

Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.

“When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Yahweh. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.

“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Armies to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, ‘How have we despised your name?’

Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.

“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them,

Moses said to Aaron, “Draw near to the altar, and offer your sin offering, and your burnt offering, and make atonement for yourself, and for the people; and offer the offering of the people, and make atonement for them, as Yahweh commanded.”

“Aaron shall come into the sanctuary with a young bull for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.

He shall take some of the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.

‘Cursed is he who leads the blind astray on the road.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

The sin of the young men was very great before Yahweh; for the men despised Yahweh’s offering.

Jehoiada appointed the officers of Yahweh’s house under the hand of the Levitical priests, whom David had distributed in Yahweh’s house, to offer the burnt offerings of Yahweh, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as David had ordered.

Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.

In my distress I called on Yahweh, and cried to my God. He heard my voice out of his temple. My cry before him came into his ears.

You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.

Hear my prayer, Yahweh! Let my cry come to you.

It is time to act, Yahweh, for they break your law.

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

A tyrannical ruler lacks judgment. One who hates ill-gotten gain will have long days.

He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.

They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.

Behold, all of their deeds are vanity and nothing. Their molten images are wind and confusion.

His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark— dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together”, says Yahweh, “who have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills. Therefore I will first measure their work into their bosom.”

A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.

This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me,” says Yahweh, “because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.”

“They will die grievous deaths. They will not be lamented, neither will they be buried. They will be as dung on the surface of the ground. They will be consumed by the sword and by famine. Their dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.”

Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.

Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widows. Let their men be killed and their young men struck by the sword in battle.

I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

They will cast their silver in the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold won’t be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath. They won’t satisfy their souls or fill their bellies; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.

Moreover also I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

Moreover I swore to them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;

“ ‘ “But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they will bear their iniquity.

“ ‘ “But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who performed the duty of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, shall come near to me to minister to me. They shall stand before me to offer to me the fat and the blood,” says the Lord Yahweh.

I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me,” says Yahweh.

Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone!

They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to engraved images.

Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.

“My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name.

He spoke a parable to them. “Can the blind guide the blind? Won’t they both fall into a pit?

Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and don’t understand these things?

The man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.

and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

Then the Levitical priests arose and blessed the people. Their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy habitation, even to heaven.

The people to whom they prophesy will be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. They will have no one to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters, for I will pour their wickedness on them.

For my people have forgotten me. They have burned incense to false gods. They have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up,

that the house of Israel may no more go astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God,” says the Lord Yahweh.’ ”

Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel. Therefore I have lifted up my hand against them,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and they will bear their iniquity.

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of Ahab’s house. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people.”

But you have turned away from the path. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says Yahweh of Armies.

But without any dispute the lesser is blessed by the greater.

but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offers for himself, and for the errors of the people.