Isaiah 43:23
Thou have not brought me from thy sheep for burnt-offerings, nor have thou honored me with thy sacrifices. I have not burdened thee with offerings, nor wearied thee with frankincense.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
22Yet thou have not called upon me, O Jacob, but thou have been weary of me, O Israel.
Cross References
Leviticus 2:1And when anyone offers an oblation of a meal-offering to LORD, his oblation shall be of fine flour, and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense on it.
Proverbs 15:8The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Isaiah 1:11What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says LORD. I have had enough of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts. And I do not delight in the blood of bullocks or of lambs or of he-goats.
Jeremiah 7:22For I spoke not to your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices.
Amos 5:25Did ye bring sacrifices and offerings to me in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
Zechariah 7:5Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh [month], even these seventy years, did ye at all fast to me, even to me?
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 43:23-28
Reproof to God's People. ( b. c. 708.) 22 But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel. 23 Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense. 24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine… Read the whole commentary →