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Isaiah 1:14

Good News Translation

I hate your New Moon Festivals and holy days; they are a burden that I am tired of bearing.

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and whenever offerings to the Lord are burned on the Sabbath, the New Moon Festival, and other festivals. Rules were made specifying the number of Levites assigned to do this work each time. The Levites were assigned the duty of worshiping the Lord for all time.

God's altar, Jerusalem itself, is doomed! The city where David camped is doomed! Let another year or two come and go, with its feasts and festivals,

and then God will bring disaster on the city that is called “God's altar.” There will be weeping and wailing, and the whole city will be like an altar covered with blood.

You didn't buy incense for me or satisfy me with the fat of your animals. Instead you burdened me with your sins; you wore me out with the wrongs you have committed.

The Lord says, “I love justice and I hate oppression and crime. I will faithfully reward my people And make an eternal covenant with them.

On every New Moon Festival and every Sabbath people of every nation will come to worship me here in Jerusalem,” says the Lord.

To that Isaiah replied, “Listen, now, descendants of King David. It's bad enough for you to wear out the patience of people—do you have to wear out God's patience too?

I will put an end to all her festivities—her annual and monthly festivals and her Sabbath celebrations—all her religious meetings.

They have been unfaithful to the Lord; their children do not belong to him. So now they and their lands will soon be destroyed.

And now I will crush you to the ground, and you will groan like a cart loaded with grain.

The Lord says, “I hate your religious festivals; I cannot stand them!

I lost patience with three other shepherds, who hated me, and I got rid of them all in a single month.

You have tired the Lord out with your talk. But you ask, “How have we tired him?” By saying, “The Lord Almighty thinks all evildoers are good; in fact he likes them.” Or by asking, “Where is the God who is supposed to be just?”




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