You have not brought Me sheep for burnt offerings, nor honored Me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense.
Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these
You also say: ‘Oh, what a nuisance!’ And you turn up your nose at it,” says the LORD of Hosts. “You bring offerings that
The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
“When anyone brings a grain offering to the LORD, his offering must consist of fine flour. He is to pour olive oil on it
For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable—how much more so when brought with ill intent!
Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; who
“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where
“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings.
For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrif
“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fa