When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you—this trampling of My courts?
Parallel translations
- WEB When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?
- KJV When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
- NKJV “When you come to appear before Me, Who has required this from your hand, To trample My courts?
- NASB “When you come to appear before Me, Who requires of you this trampling of My courtyards?
- NLT When you come to worship me, who asked you to parade through my courts with all your ceremony?
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Quick answer
God asks who required their empty temple visits, calling their worship a mere 'trampling' of His courts. Their outward devotion has become offensive.
Overview
The people assumed attendance at the temple secured God's favor, but He exposes their presence as meaningless without righteousness. 'Trampling' suggests irreverence rather than true worship. Acceptable worship comes only through a cleansed heart, ultimately made possible in Christ.
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Cross-references · 8
- Exod 34:23Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
- Exod 23:17Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD.
- Eccl 5:1Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
- Ps 40:6Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require.
- Isa 58:1–2“Cry aloud, do not hold back! Raise your voice like a ram’s horn. Declare to My people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins.
- Mic 6:8He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
- Matt 23:5All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.
- Deut 16:16Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.
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