I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.
Parallel translations
- WEB I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
- KJV I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
- NKJV I will not rebuke you for your sacrifices Or your burnt offerings, Which are continually before Me.
- NASB “I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, And your burnt offerings are continually before Me.
- NLT I have no complaint about your sacrifices or the burnt offerings you constantly offer.
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Quick answer
God's complaint is not that Israel failed to bring sacrifices; their offerings were continual. The problem lies deeper than ritual omission.
Overview
God clarifies that He is not rebuking their sacrificial practice, which was abundant and regular. This guards against misreading the passage as a rejection of the sacrificial system He Himself ordained. Rather, He is exposing a heart and life that contradict the worship they offer, as the following verses reveal.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Hos 6:6For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
- Heb 10:4–10because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
- Isa 1:11–31“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
- Ps 51:16For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings.
- Ps 40:6–8Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require.
- Jer 7:21–23This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves!
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