“I will also put an end to all her joy, Her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, And all her festivals.
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.
- 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.
- 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 offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can’t bear with evil assemblies.
- Amos 5:21I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.
- Amos 8:5Saying, ‘When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;
- Jer 7:34Then I will 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 become a waste.”
- Jer 16:9For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Behold, I will cause to cease out of this place, before 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 18:22–23The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you.
- 1 Kgs 12:32Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar. He did so in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.
- Hos 9:1–5Don’t rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.
- 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 lamp.
- Amos 8:3The songs of the temple will be wailings in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh. “The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.
- Isa 24:7–11The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh.
- Nah 1:10For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
- Ezek 26:13I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound of your harps shall be no more heard.
- Hos 3:4For the children of Israel shall live many days without king, and without prince, and without sacrifice, and without sacred stone, and without ephod or idols.
- Amos 8:9–10It will happen in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh, “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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