Isaiah 1:11

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats.

Cross References

Amos 5:21

I hate, and have rejected your festivities: and I will not receive the odour of your assemblies.

1 Samuel 15:22

And Samuel said: Doth the Lord desire holocausts and victims, and not rather that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obedience is better than sacrifices; and to hearken rather than to offer the fat of rams.

Jeremiah 6:20

To what purpose do you bring me frankincense from Saba, and the sweet smelling cane from a far country? Your holocausts are not acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me.

Isaiah 66:3

He that sacrificeth an ox is as if he slew a man: he that killeth a sheep in sacrifice, as if he should brain a dog: he that offereth an oblation, as if he should offer swine's blood; he that remembereth incense, as if he should bless an idol. All these things have they chosen in their ways: and their soul is delighted in their abominations.

Micah 6:7

May the Lord be appeased with thousands of rams, or with many thousands of fat he goats? shall I give my firstborn for my wickedness, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

Malachi 1:10

Who is there among you, that will shut the doors, and will kindle the fire on my altar gratis? I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will not receive a gift of your hand.

Proverbs 15:8

The victims of the wicked are abominable to the Lord: the vows of the just are acceptable.

Psalm 50:8

For behold thou hast loved truth: the uncertain and hidden things of thy wisdom thou hast made manifest to me.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifices of the wicked are abominable, because they are offered of wickedness.

Matthew 9:13

Go then and learn what this meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice. For I am not come to call the just, but sinners.

Jeremiah 7:21

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings to your sacrifices and eat ye the flesh.

Matthew 22:4

Again he sent other servants, saying: Tell them that were invited, Behold, I have prepared my dinner; my beeves and fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come ye to the marriage.

Numbers 7:45

An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust:

Psalm 40:6

My enemies have spoken evils against me: when shall he die and his name perish?

Proverbs 21:3

To do mercy and judgment, pleaseth the Lord more than victims.

Isaiah 58:2

For they seek me from day to day and desire to know my ways, as a nation that hath done justice and hath not forsaken the judgment of their God. They ask of me the judgments of justice: they are willing to approach to God.

Hosea 6:6

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.

Amos 5:22

And if you offer me holocausts, and your gifts, I will not receive them: neither will I regard the vows of your fat beasts.

Haggai 2:14

And Aggeus said: If one that is unclean by occasion of a soul touch any of all these things, shall it be defiled? And the priests answered, and said: It shall be defiled.

Zechariah 7:5

Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying: When you fasted, and mourned in the fifth and the seventh month for these seventy years: did you keep a fast unto me?

Hosea 8:13

They shall offer victims, they shall sacrifice flesh, and shall eat it, and the Lord will not receive them: now will he remember their iniquity, and will visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt.

Amos 4:5

And offer a sacrifice of praise with leaven: and call free offerings, and proclaim it: for so you would do, O children of Israel, saith the Lord God.