I do (A)not rebuke you for your sacrifices,
And your burnt offerings are continually before Me.
I will not take a (B)bull from your house,
Nor male goats from your folds.
10 For (C)every animal of the forest is Mine,
The cattle on a thousand hills.
11 I know every (D)bird of the mountains,
And everything that moves in the field is [a]Mine.
12 If I were hungry I would not tell you,
For the (E)world is Mine, and [b]everything it contains.
13 Shall I eat the flesh of [c](F)bulls
Or drink the blood of male goats?
14 Offer God (G)a sacrifice of thanksgiving
And (H)pay your vows to the Most High;

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 50:11 Or in My mind; lit with Me
  2. Psalm 50:12 Lit its fullness
  3. Psalm 50:13 Lit strong ones

I bring no charges(A) against you concerning your sacrifices
    or concerning your burnt offerings,(B) which are ever before me.
I have no need of a bull(C) from your stall
    or of goats(D) from your pens,(E)
10 for every animal of the forest(F) is mine,
    and the cattle on a thousand hills.(G)
11 I know every bird(H) in the mountains,
    and the insects in the fields(I) are mine.
12 If I were hungry I would not tell you,
    for the world(J) is mine, and all that is in it.(K)
13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls
    or drink the blood of goats?

14 “Sacrifice thank offerings(L) to God,
    fulfill your vows(M) to the Most High,(N)

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I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.

10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.

11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.

12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:

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11 (A)What are your many sacrifices to Me?”
Says the Lord.
“I [a]have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
And the fat of fattened cattle;
And I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls, lambs, or goats.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 1:11 Or am sated with

11 “The multitude of your sacrifices—
    what are they to me?” says the Lord.
“I have more than enough of burnt offerings,
    of rams and the fat of fattened animals;(A)
I have no pleasure(B)
    in the blood of bulls(C) and lambs and goats.(D)

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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.

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