Isaiah 1:11 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 1:11

“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.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

3 voices

Ambrose of Milan

Interrogation of Job and David 4.9.33 (397)

By saying that he does not delight in the sacrifices of the people, God is saying this: I abound in my own [sacrifice], I do not seek yours, I do not desire whole burnt offerings of rams and the fat of lambs and the blood of bulls and of goats. And do not come so into my sight.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

To me - Who am a spirit, and therefore cannot be satisfied with such carnal oblations, but expect to have your hearts and lives, as well as your bodies and sacrifices, presented unto me. Blood - He mentions the fat and blood, because these were in a peculiar manner reserved for God, to intimate that even the best of their sacrifices were rejected by him.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

To what purpose - לי למה lâmâh lı̂y. ‘What is it to me; or what profit or pleasure can I have in them?’ God here replies to an objection which might be urged by the Jews to the representation which had been made of their guilt. The objection would be, that they were strict in the duties of their religion, and that they even abounded in offering victims of sacrifice. God replies in this and the following verses, that all this would be of no use, and would meet with no acceptance, unless it were the offering of the heart.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לָמָּה־	la.mah-	<to> why?	H4100 →
לִּ֤י	li	to me
רֹב־	rov-	[the] multitude of	H7230 →
זִבְחֵיכֶם֙	ziv.chei.Khem	sacrifices your	H2077 →
יֹאמַ֣ר	yo.Mar	he says	H559 →
יְהוָ֔ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
שָׂבַ֛עְתִּי	sa.Va'.ti	I have been surfeited	H7646 →
עֹל֥וֹת	o.Lot	burnt offerings of	H5930 →
אֵילִ֖ים	'ei.Lim	rams	H352 →
וְחֵ֣לֶב	ve.Che.lev	and [the] fat of	H2459 →
מְרִיאִ֑ים	me.ri.'Im	fatlings	H4806 →
וְדַ֨ם	ve.Dam	and [the] blood of	H1818 →
פָּרִ֧ים	pa.Rim	bulls	H6499 →
וּכְבָשִׂ֛ים	u.khe.va.Sim	and lambs	H3532 →
וְעַתּוּדִ֖ים	ve.'a.tu.Dim	and goats	H6260 →
לֹ֥א	lo'	not	H3808 →
חָפָֽצְתִּי׃	cha.Fa.tze.ti	I am pleased	H2654 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Samuel 15:22
But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of…
leads to
- Hosea 6:6
  For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 51:16–17
  For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings.
- Proverbs 21:3
  To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.
- Amos 5:21–24
  “I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
- Mark 12:33
  and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, which is more important than all burnt offerings and…
Through
Isaiah 66:3
Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever presents a grain offering is like one who offers pig’s…
leads to
- Amos 5:21–22
  “I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Amos 5:21
“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
leads to
- Isaiah 1:11–16
  “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…
- Proverbs 28:9
  Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.