Isaiah 1:14

My soul hates your days of proclamation and your solemnities. They have become bothersome to me. I labor to endure them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

13You should no longer offer sacrifice in vain. Incense is an abomination to me. The new moons and the Sabbaths and the other feast days, I will not receive. Your gatherings are iniquitous.

15And so, when you extend your hands, I will avert my eyes from you. And when you multiply your prayers, I will not heed you. For your hands are full of blood.

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Cross References

Isaiah 7:13And he said: “Then listen, O house of David. Is it such a small thing for you to trouble men, that you must also trouble my God?

Isaiah 43:24You have bought me no sweet cane with money, and you have not inebriated me with the fat of your victims. Yet truly, you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me with your iniquities.

Amos 2:13Behold, I will creak under you, just as a wagon creaks that is laden with hay.

Zechariah 11:8And I cut down three shepherds in one month. And my soul became contracted concerning them, just as their soul also varied concerning 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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