Hosea 6:6 - Tree of Life Version For I delight in loyalty and not sacrifice, knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For I desire and delight in dutiful steadfast love and goodness, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of and acquaintance with God more than burnt offerings. [Matt. 9:13; 12:7.] American Standard Version (1901) For I desire goodness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings. Common English Bible I desire faithful love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God instead of entirely burned offerings. Catholic Public Domain Version For I desired mercy and not sacrifice, and knowledge of God more than holocausts. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts. |
“Now you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him with a whole heart and with a willing mind; for Adonai searches all hearts and understands every intent of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you. But if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.
I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, for your burnt offerings are continually before Me.
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Adonai than sacrifice.
Do not be quick with your mouth nor hasty in your heart to utter a word in God’s presence. For God is in heaven, and you are on the earth— therefore, let your words be few.
“For what is it to Me— the multitude of your sacrifices?” says Adonai. “I am full of burnt offerings of rams and fat of fed animals. I have no delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs or he-goats.
“Is not this the fast I choose: to release the bonds of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to tear off every yoke?
He pled the case of the poor and weak, so it went well. Is not this knowledge of Me?” It is a declaration of Adonai.
For on the day that I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt I did not speak to them nor did I command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices,
the king exclaimed, “Is this not the great Babylon that I have built as the royal residence by my mighty power and for the glory of my majesty?”
Return O Israel, to Adonai your God, for you have stumbled in your iniquity.
In that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, the flying creatures in the sky, and the creeping things on the ground. I will break into pieces the bow and sword and warfare from the land, and I will cause them to lie down securely.
Hear the word of Adonai, Bnei-Yisrael! For Adonai has a dispute with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, no covenant loyalty, and no knowledge of God in the land.
Sacrifices are gifts for Me— should they sacrifice meat and then eat it? Adonai will not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sin— they will return to Egypt.
“I hate, I despise your festivals! I take no delight in your sacred assemblies.
With what shall I come before Adonai? With what shall I bow myself before God on high? Shall I present Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?
He has told you, humanity, what is good, and what Adonai is seeking from you: Only to practice justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
If you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you wouldn’t have condemned the innocent.
Now go and learn what this means: ‘Mercy I desire, and not sacrifice.’ For I didn’t come to call the righteous, but the sinful.”
And ‘to love Him with all the heart, with all the understanding, and with all the strength,’ and ‘to love the neighbor as oneself,’ is much more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
Though all the people that came out were circumcised, none of the people who were born in the wilderness along the way as they came out of Egypt had been circumcised.
Now we know that we have come to know Him by this—if we keep His commandments.
No one who abides in Him keeps on sinning; no one who sins has seen Him or known Him.
Samuel said: “Does Adonai delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of Adonai? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, to pay heed than the fat of rams.