'Piety' in the Bible

Isn’t your piety your confidence,and the integrity of your life your hope?

Yea, thou makest piety of none effect, and restrainest meditation before God.

Does He correct you and take you to courtbecause of your piety?

If they say, “Come with us;Let us lie in wait to shed blood,Let us ambush the innocent without cause;

For when he sees his children, the work of My hands, in his midst,They will sanctify My Name;They will sanctify the Holy One of JacobAnd will stand in awe and reverent fear of the God of Israel.

Because of the transgression [of God’s people—their irreverence and ungodliness] the host will be given over to the wicked horn, along with the regular sacrifice; and righteousness and truth will be flung to the ground, and the horn will do as it pleases [by divine permission] and prosper.

He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers [a reconciliation produced by repentance], so that I will not come and strike the land with a curse [of complete destruction].”