Isaiah 1:12
When you approach before my sight, who is it that requires these things from your hands, so that you would walk in my courts?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 34:23Three times a year, all your males shall appear in the sight of the Almighty, the Lord God of Israel.
Psalms 40:6My enemies have spoken evils against me. When will he die and his name perish?
Isaiah 58:1Cry out! Cease not! Exalt your voice like a trumpet, and announce to my people their wicked acts, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
Micah 6:8I will reveal to you, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requires from you, and how to act with judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk carefully with your God.
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 →