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Isaiah 1:14

Contemporary English Version 1995

I hate your New Moon Festivals and all others as well. They are a heavy burden I am tired of carrying.

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I, the Lord, hate and despise your religious celebrations and your times of worship.

You have not brought delicious spices for me or given me the best part of your sacrificed animals. Instead, you burden me down with your terrible sins.

And so I will crush you, just as a wagon full of grain crushes the ground.

I, the Lord, love justice! But I hate robbery and injustice. My people, I solemnly promise to reward you with an eternal agreement.

Then I said: Listen, every one of you in the royal family of David. You have already tried my patience. Now you are trying God's patience by refusing to ask for proof.

You have worn out the Lord with your words. And yet, you ask, “How did we do that?” You did it by saying, “The Lord is pleased with evil and doesn't care about justice.”

In less than a month, I became impatient with three shepherds who didn't like me, and I got rid of them.

Jerusalem, city of David, the place of my altar, you are in for trouble! Celebrate your festivals year after year.

They must also give thanks and sing praises when sacrifices are offered on each Sabbath, as well as during New Moon Festivals and other religious feasts. There must always be enough Levites on duty at the temple to do everything that needs to be done.

I will still make you suffer, and your people will cry when I make an altar of you.

On the first day of each month and on each Sabbath, everyone will worship me. I, the Lord, have spoken.

I'll stop Israel's celebrations— no more New Moon Festivals, Sabbaths, or other feasts.

You have been unfaithful to me, your Lord; you have had children by prostitutes. So at the New Moon Festival, you and your crops will be destroyed.




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