Isaiah 1:12
When you come to appear before Me, || Who has required this of your hand, || To trample My courts?
Literal Standard 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 in a year all your males appear before the Lord YHWH, God of Israel;
Psalms 40:6Sacrifice and present You have not desired, || But a body You have prepared for me, || Burnt and sin-offering You have not asked.
Isaiah 58:1“Call with the throat, do not restrain, lift up your voice as a horn, || And declare to My people their transgression, || And to the house of Jacob their sins;
Micah 6:8He has declared to you, O man, what [is] good; Indeed, what is YHWH requiring of you, || Except—to do judgment, and love kindness, || And to walk lowly 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 →