But he said, ‘Why go to him today? It’s not a New Moon or a Sabbath.’ She replied, ‘It’s all right.’
Isaiah 1:13 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Stop bringing useless offerings. Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons and Sabbaths, and the calling of solemn assemblies – I cannot stand iniquity with a festival. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
But he said, ‘Why go to him today? It’s not a New Moon or a Sabbath.’ She replied, ‘It’s all right.’
Whenever burnt offerings are offered to the Lord on the Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed festivals, they are to offer them regularly in the Lord’s presence according to the number prescribed for them.
You are to hold a sacred assembly on the first day and another sacred assembly on the seventh day. No work may be done on those days except for preparing what people need to eat #– #you may do only that.
The sacrifice of a wicked person is detestable – how much more so when he brings it with ulterior motives!
All humanity will come to worship me from one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another,’ says the Lord.
One person slaughters an ox, another kills a person; one person sacrifices a lamb, another breaks a dog’s neck; one person offers a grain offering, another offers pig’s blood; one person offers incense, another praises an idol – all these have chosen their ways and delight in their abhorrent practices.
He has wrecked his temple as if it were merely a shack in a field, destroying his place of meeting. The Lord has abolished appointed festivals and Sabbaths in Zion. He has despised king and priest in his fierce anger.
‘ “As for you, house of Israel, this is what the Lord God says: Go and serve your idols, each of you. But afterwards you will surely listen to me, and you will no longer defile my holy name with your gifts and idols.
I will put an end to all her celebrations: her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths – all her festivals.
Announce a sacred fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land at the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.
Blow the ram’s horn in Zion! Announce a sacred fast; proclaim a solemn assembly.
I will reduce your cities to ruins and devastate your sanctuaries. I will not smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.
‘I wish one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle a useless fire on my altar! I am not pleased with you,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘and I will accept no offering from your hands.
‘Make two trumpets of hammered silver to summon the community and have the camps set out.
‘But woe to you Pharisees! You give a tenth , of mint, rue, and every kind of herb, and you bypass justice and love for God. , These things you should have done without neglecting the others.
Now in giving this instruction I do not praise you, since you come together not for the better but for the worse.
And don’t grieve God’s Holy Spirit. You were sealed by him for the day of redemption.
To be sure, some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out of good will.