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11 “How do your voluminous sacrifices benefit me?”
    the Lord is asking.
“I’ve had enough of burnt offerings of rams
    and the fat of well-fed beasts.
I don’t enjoy the blood of bulls,
    lambs, or goats.

12 “When you come to present yourselves in my presence,[a]
    who has required you
        to trample on my courts?
13 Stop bringing useless offerings!
    Incense is detestable to me,
as are your New Moons, Sabbaths, and calling of convocations.
    I cannot stand iniquity within[b] a solemn assembly.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:12 Lit. come for my face to appear
  2. Isaiah 1:13 Lit. and