Isaiah 1:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹³ Bringing offerings is futile; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath and calling of convocation— I cannot endure solemn assemblies with iniquity.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ Bring no more offerings of vanity (emptiness, falsity, vainglory, and futility); [your hollow offering of] incense is an abomination to Me; the New Moons and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot endure–[it is] iniquity and profanation, even the solemn meeting.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; new moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies,—I cannot away with iniquity and the solemn meeting.

Common English Bible

¹³ Stop bringing worthless offerings. Your incense repulses me. New moon, sabbath, and the calling of an assembly— I can’t stand wickedness with celebration!

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ You should no longer offer sacrifice 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination tome. The new moons, and the sabbaths, and other festivals I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked.

Isaiah 1:13 Cross References

2 Kings 4:23

He said, “Why go to him today? It is neither new moon nor Sabbath.” She said, “It will be all right.”

1 Chronicles 23:31

and whenever burnt offerings are offered to the Lord on Sabbaths, new moons, and appointed festivals, according to the number required of them, regularly before the Lord.

Psalm 78:40

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness and grieved him in the desert!

Exodus 12:16

On the first day you shall hold a solemn assembly and on the seventh day a solemn assembly; no work shall be done on those days; only what everyone must eat, that alone may be prepared by you.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when brought with evil intent.

Proverbs 7:14

“I had to offer sacrifices, and today I have paid my vows;

Isaiah 66:23

From new moon to new moon and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before me, says the Lord.

Isaiah 66:3

Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who kills a human, whoever sacrifices a lamb like one who breaks a dog’s neck, whoever presents a grain offering like one who offers pig’s blood, whoever makes a memorial offering of frankincense like one who blesses an idol. Just as these have chosen their own ways and in their abominations they take delight,

Lamentations 2:6

He has broken down his booth like a garden; he has destroyed his tabernacle; the Lord has abolished in Zion festival and Sabbath and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.

Ezekiel 20:39

As for you, O house of Israel, thus says the Lord God: Go serve your idols, every one of you now and hereafter, if you will not listen to me, but my holy name you shall no more profane with your gifts and your idols.

Hosea 2:11

I will put an end to all her mirth, her festivals, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her appointed festivals.

Joel 1:14

Consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.

Joel 2:15

Blow the trumpet in Zion; consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly;

Leviticus 26:31

I will lay your cities waste, will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your pleasing odors.

Malachi 1:10

Oh, that someone among you would shut the temple doors, so that you would not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord of hosts, and I will not accept an offering from your hands.

Numbers 10:2

“Make two silver trumpets; you shall make them of hammered work, and you shall use them for summoning the congregation and for breaking camp.

Matthew 15:9

in vain do they worship me, teaching human precepts as doctrines.’ ”

Luke 11:42

“But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and herbs of all kinds and neglect justice and the love of God; it is these you ought to have practiced, without neglecting the others.

1 Corinthians 11:17

Now in the following instructions I do not commend you, because when you come together it is not for the better but for the worse.

Ephesians 4:30

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which you were marked with a seal for the day of redemption.

Philippians 1:15

Some proclaim Christ from envy and rivalry but others from goodwill.