I will put an end to all her exultation: her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—all her appointed feasts.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.
- KJV I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
- NKJV I will also cause all her mirth to cease, Her feast days, Her New Moons, Her Sabbaths— All her appointed feasts.
- NASB “I will also put an end to all her joy, Her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, And all her festivals.
- NLT I will put an end to her annual festivals, her new moon celebrations, and her Sabbath days— all her appointed festivals.
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Quick answer
God will bring Israel's religious festivals and sabbaths to an end. Empty worship offered alongside idolatry will be silenced.
Overview
The feasts, new moons, and sabbaths had become hollow because the people mingled them with Baal worship. God ending these celebrations signals the suspension of a religious life that had lost its heart. The verse warns that outward observance without genuine devotion is unacceptable to God, and it anticipates a true worship that He will one day restore in sincerity.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Isa 1:13–14Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me—your New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations. I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly.
- Amos 5:21“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
- Amos 8:5asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.
- Jer 7:34I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.”
- Jer 16:9For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.
- Rev 18:22–23And the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will never ring out in you again. Nor will any craftsmen of any trade be found in you again, nor the sound of a millstone be heard in you again.
- 1 Kgs 12:32And Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up, and he installed priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up.
- Hos 9:1–5Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have made love for hire on every threshing floor.
- Jer 25:10Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
- Amos 8:3“In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”
- Isa 24:7–11The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
- Nah 1:10For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.
- Ezek 26:13So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the music of your lyres will no longer be heard.
- Hos 3:4For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.
- Amos 8:9–10And in that day, declares the Lord GOD, I will make the sun go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the daytime.
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