Isaiah 1:14

Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under them.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

In Context

13Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings.

15And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.

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Cross References

Isaiah 7:13And he said, Give ear now, O family of David: is it not enough that you are driving men to disgust? will you do the same to my God?

Isaiah 43:24You have not got me sweet-smelling plants with your money, or given me pleasure with the fat of your offerings: but you have made me a servant to your sins, and you have made me tired with your evil doings.

Amos 2:13See, I am crushing you down, as one is crushed under a cart full of grain.

Zechariah 11:8And in one month I put an end to the three keepers of the flock; for my soul was tired of them, and their souls were disgusted with me.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 1:11-16

The Vanity of Mere Ritual Obedience. ( b. c. 738.) 10 Hear the word of the Lord , ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. 11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord : I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is… Read the whole commentary →

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