Isaiah 1:11
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
הערת לימוד
Study Note
God's rhetorical question — 'To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me?' — opens one of the most radical prophetic critiques of the cult in the entire Hebrew Bible. The systematic rejection of burnt offerings, feasts, incense, sabbaths, and prayers (verses 11-15) is not abolitionism but conditionalism: these practices are meaningless or even offensive when detached from justice. The corrective is specified in verse 17: 'learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.' Amos 5:21-24 ('I hate, I despise your feast days'), Micah 6:6-8, and Jesus's Sermon on the Mount ethics all stand in this prophetic tradition of insisting that worship and ethics cannot be separated without destroying both.
תרגומים נוספים
What unto me is the multitude of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah: I have had enough of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
`Why to Me the abundance of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah, I have been satiated <FI>with<Fi> burnt-offerings of rams, And fat of fatlings; And blood of bullocks, and lambs, And he-goats I have not desired.
What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
הפניות צולבות
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I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
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The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
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Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
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