Isaiah 1:14
in Isaiah 1I hate your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.
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ASV
Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are a trouble unto me; I am weary of bearing them.
KJV
Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
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This verse in Isaiah 1
Commentary
11 notes on this verseYour new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth,.... The Targum is, "my Word abhorreth;'' the Messiah, the essential Word. These are the same as before. They are a trouble unto me; as they were kept and observed, either when they should not, or in a manner unbecoming: I am weary to bear them; because of the sins with which they made him to serve, Isa 43:24.
This site's exposition
Bring your worthless offerings no more
on Isaiah 1:13-15
Verse 13 opens a list of rejected worship: incense called detestable, and New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations the LORD cannot endure alongside iniquity. The forms had been commanded through Moses. The fault is the injustice beside them, which verse 15 names in the words "Your hands are covered with blood."
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I hate your New Moons and your appointed feasts
The New Moons opened each month, and the appointed feasts were the fixed yearly festivals of the law. God calls the feasts He ordained a burden He is weary of carrying. Isaiah 43:24 uses the same weariness of Israel's sins.
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The Church Fathers4 voices
Through this arises the question for us, what sabbath God willed us to keep? For the Scriptures point to an eternal sabbath and a temporal sabbath. For Isaiah the prophet says, "My soul hates your sabbaths," and in another place he says, "My sabbath you have profaned." From which we discern that the temporal sabbath is human and the eternal sabbath is accounted divine.
God has here expressed an aversion to certain sabbaths. By calling them "your sabbaths" he means that the sabbaths he rejects are humanity's, and not his. He rejects them because they were celebrated without the fear of God by a people full of sins who love God "with the lip, not the heart."
(Verse 14.) I will not bear your new moons, and sabbaths, and other feasts: your assemblies are wicked. Every gathering that does not offer spiritual sacrifices, and does not listen to what is sung in the fiftieth psalm: A sacrifice to God is a contrite spirit: a broken and humbled heart God does not despise, is abominable to God. And therefore it connects and says: Your new moons and solemnities. So that it does not call them their own feasts: but those who misuse them.
Fear and patience, then, are helpers of our faith; and long-suffering and continence are things which fight on our side. While these remain pure in what respects the Lord, Wisdom, Understanding, Science, and Knowledge rejoice along with them. For He hath revealed to us by …
The Medieval Church1 voice
Second, where it says, your kalends, as to the present, he sets out hatred, saying: kalends, which are called new moons above; hence, in another Psalm: take up the trumpet at the beginning of the month (80:4[81:3]). The Lord has caused feasts and sabbaths to …
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The Medieval Church1 voice
A commentator
BonaventureCollations on the Hexaemeron, Collation 14 · Written in the 13th century.
proposed
Then came the time of the prophets who showed them clearly that they could not be saved through the Law. Hence, in Isaiah: "Your new moons and festivals I detest. — I have had enough of whole-burnt rams and fat of fatlings; in the blood …
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Your appointed feasts - That is, your assemblies convened on regular set times - מועד mô‛êd, from יעד yâ‛ad, to fix, to appoint. Hengstenberg (Chris. iii. p. 87) has shown that this word (מועדים mô‛ĕdı̂ym) is applied in the Scriptures only to the sabbath, passover, pentecost, day of atonement, and feast of tabernacles. Prof. Alexander, in loc. It is applied to those festivals, because they were fixed by law to certain periods of the year. This verse is a very impressive repetition of the former, as if the soul was full of the subject, and disposed to dwell upon it.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
appointed--the sabbath, passover, pentecost, day of atonement, and feast of tabernacles [HENGSTENBERG]; they alone were fixed to certain times of the year. weary-- (Isa 43:24).
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How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
You shall bring no more vain meal-offerings I warn you, you shall not bring Me your vain meal- offering, for the smoke that rises from it is smoke of abomination to Me, and not for My satisfaction.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| חָדְשֵׁיכֶ֤ם | chadesheikhem | new moons your | H2320 → | 284 times |
| וּמוֹעֲדֵיכֶם֙ | umoadeikhem | and appointed feasts your | H4150 → | 223 times |
| שָׂנְאָ֣ה | saneah | it hates | H8130 → | 146 times |
| נַפְשִׁ֔י | nafshi | self my | H5315 → | 754 times |
| הָי֥וּ | hayu | they have become | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| עָלַ֖י | ʾalai | on me | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| לָטֹ֑רַח | latorach | <into> a burden | H2960 → | |
| נִלְאֵ֖יתִי | nileiti | I am weary | H3811 → | 19 times |
| נְשֹֽׂא׃ | neso' | to bear [them] | H5375 → | 656 times |
חָדְשֵׁיכֶ֤םnew moons your
chadesheikhemH2320 →284 times
וּמוֹעֲדֵיכֶם֙and appointed feasts your
umoadeikhemH4150 →223 times
שָׂנְאָ֣הit hates
saneahH8130 →146 times
נַפְשִׁ֔יself my
nafshiH5315 →754 times
הָי֥וּthey have become
hayuH1961 →3559 times
עָלַ֖יon me
ʾalaiH5921 →5755 times
לָטֹ֑רַח<into> a burden
latorachH2960 →
נִלְאֵ֖יתִיI am weary
nileitiH3811 →19 times
נְשֹֽׂא׃to bear [them]
neso'H5375 →656 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Isaiah 7:13Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, O house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of men? Will you try the patience of my God as well?
it leads to
- Isaiah 43:24
You have not bought Me sweet cane with your silver, nor satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Isaiah 43:24
Through
Isaiah 61:8For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.
it leads to
- Psalms 11:7
For the LORD is righteous; He loves justice. The upright will see His face.
- Jeremiah 9:24
But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth—for I delight in these things,”…
- Zechariah 8:16–17
These are the things you must do: Speak truth to one another, render true and sound judgments in your gates,
- Psalms 11:7
Through
Amos 5:21“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 6:20
What use to Me is frankincense from Sheba or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; your sacrifices do not please Me.”
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 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.
- Leviticus 26:31
I will reduce your cities to rubble and lay waste your sanctuaries, and I will refuse to smell the pleasing aroma of your sacrifices.
- Jeremiah 6:20
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Bonaventure, Collations on the Hexaemeron, Collation 14; Epistle of Barnabas, The Epistle of Barnabas, Chapter II; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Tertullian, AN ANSWER TO THE JEWS 4; Tertullian, AGAINST MARCION 1. and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Isaiah.