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11 (A)“What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices?
    says the Lord;
I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
    and the fat of well-fed beasts;
I do not delight in the blood of bulls,
    or of lambs, or of goats.

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13 And the Lord said:
“Because (A)this people (B)draw near with their mouth
    and honour me with their lips,
    while their hearts are far from me,
and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men,

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“Say to all the people of the land and the priests, When you fasted and mourned in (A)the fifth month and in (B)the seventh, for these (C)seventy years, (D)was it (E)for me that you fasted? (F)And when you eat and when you drink, do you not eat for yourselves and drink for yourselves?

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