I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn 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.
- BSB I will put an end to all her exultation: her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—all her appointed 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 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.
- Amos 5:21I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
- Amos 8:5Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
- Jer 7:34Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.
- Jer 16:9For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
- Rev 18:22–23And the voice of harpers, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft he be, shall be found any more in thee; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee;
- 1 Kgs 12:32And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.
- Hos 9:1–5Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
- Jer 25:10Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
- Amos 8:3And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
- Isa 24:7–11The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
- Nah 1:10For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
- Ezek 26:13And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.
- Hos 3:4For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:
- Amos 8:9–10And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
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