Isaiah 43:23
You have not brought me any of your sheep as burnt offerings, 1 or honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with grain offerings, nor wearied you with demands for incense. 1
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22But you have not called on me, Jacob; you have become tired of me, Israel. 1
Cross References
Leviticus 2:1When anyone brings a grain offering to Yahweh, his offering must be fine flour, and he will pour oil on it and put incense on it.
Proverbs 15:8Yahweh hates the sacrifices of wicked people, 1 but the prayer of upright people is his delight. 1
Isaiah 1:11“What is the multitude of your sacrifices to me?” says Yahweh. 1 “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fatted beasts; 1 and in the blood of bulls, lambs, or goats I do not delight. 1
Jeremiah 7:22For when I brought your ancestors out from the land of Egypt, I did not require anything from them. I gave them no command about matters of burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Amos 5:25Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings 1 in the wilderness for forty years, house of Israel? 1
Zechariah 7:5“Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests and say, 'When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, were you truly fasting for 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 →