“Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.”
The description of people who "seek me daily and delight to know my ways" but practice injustice suggests that religious enthusiasm and ethical violation coexist in the same persons. The demand for justice-decisions ("right ordinances") indicates that the people possess theoretical knowledge of YHWH's ways but refuse embodied practice. The phrase "as if they were a nation that acted righteously" indicates that the people perform righteousness theatrically while violating it substantively. This verse captures the cognitive dissonance of communities that profess faith while practicing injustice, a perennial prophetic target.
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