²¹ 你行淫亂豈是小事，竟將我的兒女殺了，使他們經火歸與他麼？

¹ 你們要讚美耶和華！因歌頌我們的神為善為美；讚美的話是合宜的。

² 耶和華建造耶路撒冷，聚集以色列中被趕散的人。

³ 他醫好傷心的人，裹好他們的傷處。

⁴ 他數點星宿的數目，一一稱他的名。

⁵ 我們的主為大，最有能力；他的智慧無法測度。

⁶ 耶和華扶持謙卑人，將惡人傾覆於地。

⁷ 你們要以感謝向耶和華歌唱，用琴向我們的神歌頌。

⁸ 他用雲遮天，為地降雨，使草生長在山上。

⁹ 他賜食給走獸和啼叫的小烏鴉。

¹⁰ 他不喜悅馬的力大，不喜愛人的腿快。

¹¹ 耶和華喜愛敬畏他和盼望他慈愛的人。

¹² 耶路撒冷啊，你要頌讚耶和華！錫安哪，你要讚美你的神！

¹³ 因為他堅固了你的門閂，賜福給你中間的兒女。

¹⁴ 他使你境內平安，用上好的麥子使你滿足。

¹⁵ 他發命在地；他的話頒行最快。

¹⁶ 他降雪如羊毛，撒霜如爐灰。

¹⁷ 他擲下冰雹如碎渣；他發出寒冷，誰能當得起呢？

¹⁸ 他一出令，這些就都消化；他使風颳起，水便流動。

¹⁹ 他將他的道指示雅各，將他的律例典章指示以色列。

²⁰ 別國他都沒有這樣待過；至於他的典章，他們向來沒有知道。你們要讚美耶和華！

¹ Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem.

² Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is, unwashed, hands, they found fault.

³ (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, don't eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.

⁴ They don't eat when they come from the marketplace, unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)

⁵ The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why don't your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?"

⁶ He answered them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

⁷ But in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'

⁸ "For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men--the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things."

⁹ He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

¹⁰ For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'

¹¹ But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban, that is to say, given to God;"'

¹² then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,

¹³ making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this."

¹⁴ He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand.