I also found out that because the portions for the Levites had not been given, each of the Levites and the singers performing the service had gone back to his own field.
Isaiah 43:23 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised You have not brought me your sheep for burnt offerings or honoured me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings or wearied you with incense. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You have not brought Me your sheep and goats for burnt offerings, or honored Me with your sacrifices. I have not required you to serve with an offering or treated you as a slave by demanding tribute or wearied you with offering incense. American Standard Version (1901) Thou hast not brought me of thy sheep for burnt-offerings; neither hast thou honored me with thy sacrifices. I have not burdened thee with offerings, nor wearied thee with frankincense. Common English Bible You didn’t bring me lambs for your entirely burned offering; you didn’t honor me with your sacrifices. I didn’t make you worship with offerings; I didn’t weary you with frankincense. Catholic Public Domain Version You have not offered me the ram of your holocaust, and you have not glorified me with your victims. I have not burdened you with oblations, nor have I wearied you with incense. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thou hast not offered me the ram of thy holocaust, nor hast thou glorified me with thy victims. I have not caused thee to serve with oblations, nor wearied thee with incense. |
I also found out that because the portions for the Levites had not been given, each of the Levites and the singers performing the service had gone back to his own field.
The Lord said to Moses, ‘Take fragrant spices: stacte, onycha, and galbanum; the spices and pure frankincense are to be in equal measures.
The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
The sacrifice of a wicked person is detestable – how much more so when he brings it with ulterior motives!
Honour the Lord with your possessions and with the first produce of your entire harvest;
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.
This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices, and eat the meat yourselves,
for when I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak with them or command them concerning burnt offering and sacrifice.
‘When anyone presents a grain offering as an offering to the Lord, it is to consist of fine flour. He is to pour olive oil on it, put frankincense on it,
Place pure frankincense near each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portion for the bread and a food offering to the Lord.
‘House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to me during the forty years in the wilderness?
My people, what have I done to you, or how have I wearied you? Testify against me!
‘Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing me! ’ ‘How do we rob you? ’ you ask. ‘By not making the payments of the tenth and the contributions.