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I get no pleasure from the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. <a href="/esv/isaiah/1.htm">English Standard Version</a> “What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the LORD; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats. <a href="/bsb/isaiah/1.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> “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. <a href="/kjv/isaiah/1.htm">King James Bible</a> 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. <a href="/nkjv/isaiah/1.htm">New King James Version</a> “To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me?” Says the LORD. “I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams And the fat of fed cattle. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, Or of lambs or goats. <a href="/nasb_/isaiah/1.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> “What are your many sacrifices to Me?” Says the LORD. “I 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. <a href="/nasb/isaiah/1.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8220What are your multiplied sacrifices to Me?&#8221 Says the LORD. &#8220I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams And the fat of fed cattle; And I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls, lambs or goats. <a href="/nasb77/isaiah/1.htm">NASB 1977 </a> “What are your multiplied sacrifices to Me?” Says the LORD. “I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams, And the fat of fed cattle. And I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls, lambs, or goats. <a href="/lsb/isaiah/1.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> “What are your multiplied sacrifices to Me?” Says Yahweh. “I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams And the fat of fed cattle; And in the blood of bulls, lambs, or goats I take no pleasure. <a href="/amp/isaiah/1.htm">Amplified Bible</a> “What are your multiplied sacrifices to Me [without your repentance]?” Says the LORD. “I have had enough of [your] burnt offerings of rams And the fat of well-fed cattle [without your obedience]; And I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls or lambs or goats [offered without repentance]. <a href="/csb/isaiah/1.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> “What are all your sacrifices to me? ” asks the LORD. “I have had enough of burnt offerings and rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I have no desire for the blood of bulls, lambs, or male goats. <a href="/hcsb/isaiah/1.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> What are all your sacrifices to Me?&#8221 asks the LORD.&#8221 I have had enough of burnt offerings and rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I have no desire for the blood of bulls, lambs, or male goats. <a href="/asv/isaiah/1.htm">American Standard Version</a> 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. <a href="/cev/isaiah/1.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> "Your sacrifices mean nothing to me. I am sick of your offerings of rams and choice cattle; I don't like the blood of bulls or lambs or goats. <a href="/erv/isaiah/1.htm">English Revised Version</a> 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. <a href="/gwt/isaiah/1.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> The LORD asks, "What do your many animal sacrifices mean to me? I've had enough of your burnt offerings of rams and enough fat from your fattened calves. I'm not pleased with the blood of bulls, lambs, or male goats. <a href="/gnt/isaiah/1.htm">Good News Translation</a> He says, "Do you think I want all these sacrifices you keep offering to me? I have had more than enough of the sheep you burn as sacrifices and of the fat of your fine animals. I am tired of the blood of bulls and sheep and goats. <a href="/isv/isaiah/1.htm">International Standard Version</a> "How do your voluminous sacrifices benefit me?" the LORD is asking. "I've had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts. I don't enjoy the blood of bulls, lambs, or goats. <a href="/msb/isaiah/1.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> ?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. <a href="/net/isaiah/1.htm">NET Bible</a> "Of what importance to me are your many sacrifices?" says the LORD. "I am stuffed with burnt sacrifices of rams and the fat from steers. The blood of bulls, lambs, and goats I do not want. <a href="/nheb/isaiah/1.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> "What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?," says the LORD. "I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats. <a href="/wbt/isaiah/1.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to 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. <a href="/web/isaiah/1.htm">World English Bible</a> “What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/isaiah/1.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> “Why the abundance of your sacrifices to Me?” says YHWH, "" “I have been satiated [with] burnt-offerings of rams, "" And fat of fatlings; And blood of bullocks, and lambs, "" And I have not desired male goats. <a href="/ylt/isaiah/1.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> Why to Me the abundance of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah, I have been satiated with burnt-offerings of rams, And fat of fatlings; And blood of bullocks, and lambs, And he-goats I have not desired. <a href="/slt/isaiah/1.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> For what to me the multitude of your sacrifices? Jehovah will say: I was filled with the burnt-offerings of rams and the fat of fatlings; and I delighted not in the blood of bullocks, and of he lambs and of he goats.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/isaiah/1.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats. <a href="/cpdv/isaiah/1.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> The multitude of your sacrifices, what is that to me, says the Lord? I am full. I do not desire holocausts of rams, nor the fat of fatlings, nor the blood of calves and of lambs and of he-goats. <a href="/nabre/isaiah/1.htm">New American Bible</a> What do I care for the multitude of your sacrifices? says the LORD. I have had enough of whole-burnt rams and fat of fatlings; In the blood of calves, lambs, and goats I find no pleasure. <a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/1.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the LORD; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/1.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> Of what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? says the LORD; I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I do not delight in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats. <a href="/hpbt/isaiah/1.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> ”Why were the abundance of your sacrifices to me, says LORD JEHOVAH? I am filled with sacrifices of rams and fat of fatlings, and the blood of oxen and of lambs and of goats I have not desired<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/isaiah/1.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> 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. <a href="/sep/isaiah/1.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> Of what value to me is the abundance of your sacrifices? saith the Lord: I am full of whole-burnt-offerings of rams; and I delight not in the fat of lambs, and the blood of bulls and goats: <a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-11.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=120" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/isaiah/1.htm">Meaningless Offerings</a> 10Hear the word of the LORD, you rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our God, you people of Gomorrah! 11<a href="/hebrew/4100.htm" title="4100: lām·māh- (Interrog) -- What? how? anything. ">“What good</a> <a href="/hebrew/lî (Prep:: 1cs) -- ">to Me</a> <a href="/hebrew/7230.htm" title="7230: rōḇ- (N-msc) -- Multitude, abundance, greatness. From rabab; abundance.">is your multitude</a> <a href="/hebrew/2077.htm" title="2077: ziḇ·ḥê·ḵem (N-mpc:: 2mp) -- A sacrifice. From zabach; properly, a slaughter, i.e. The flesh of an animal; by implication, a sacrifice.">of sacrifices?”</a> <a href="/hebrew/559.htm" title="559: yō·mar (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- To utter, say. A primitive root; to say.">says</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">the LORD.</a> <a href="/hebrew/7646.htm" title="7646: śā·ḇa‘·tî (V-Qal-Perf-1cs) -- To be sated, satisfied or surfeited. Or sabeay; a primitive root; to sate, i.e. Fill to satisfaction.">“I am full</a> <a href="/hebrew/5930.htm" title="5930: ‘ō·lō·wṯ (N-fpc) -- Whole burnt offering. Or mowlah; feminine active participle of alah; a step or; usually a holocaust.">from the burnt offerings</a> <a href="/hebrew/352.htm" title="352: ’ê·lîm (N-mp) -- From the same as 'uwl; properly, strength; hence, anything strong; specifically a chief; also a ram; a pilaster; an oak or other strong tree.">of rams</a> <a href="/hebrew/2459.htm" title="2459: wə·ḥê·leḇ (Conj-w:: N-msc) -- Or cheleb; from an unused root meaning to be fat; fat, whether literally or figuratively; hence, the richest or choice part.">and the fat</a> <a href="/hebrew/4806.htm" title="4806: mə·rî·’îm (N-mp) -- A fatling, fatlings. From mara' in the sense of grossness, through the idea of domineering; stall-fed; often a beeve.">of well-fed cattle;</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: lō (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles."></a> <a href="/hebrew/2654.htm" title="2654: ḥā·p̄ā·ṣə·tî (V-Qal-Perf-1cs) -- A primitive root; properly, to incline to; by implication to bend; figuratively, to be pleased with, desire.">I take no delight</a> <a href="/hebrew/1818.htm" title="1818: wə·ḏam (Conj-w:: N-msc) -- Blood. From damam; blood of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively bloodshed.">in the blood</a> <a href="/hebrew/6499.htm" title="6499: pā·rîm (N-mp) -- Young bull, steer. Or par; from parar; a bullock.">of bulls</a> <a href="/hebrew/3532.htm" title="3532: ū·ḵə·ḇā·śîm (Conj-w:: N-mp) -- A lamb. From an unused root meaning to dominate; a ram.">and lambs</a> <a href="/hebrew/6260.htm" title="6260: wə·‘at·tū·ḏîm (Conj-w:: N-mp) -- Male goat. Or sattud; from athad; prepared, i.e. Full grown; spoken only of he-goats, or leaders of the people.">and goats.</a> 12When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you—this trampling of My courts?…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/psalms/51-16.htm">Psalm 51:16-17</a> For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings. / The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise. <a href="/hosea/6-6.htm">Hosea 6:6</a> For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings. <a href="/micah/6-6.htm">Micah 6:6-8</a> With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves? / Would the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I present my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? / He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God? <a href="/amos/5-21.htm">Amos 5:21-24</a> “I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies. / Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard. / Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. ... <a href="/jeremiah/6-20.htm">Jeremiah 6:20</a> 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.” <a href="/1_samuel/15-22.htm">1 Samuel 15:22</a> 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 rams. <a href="/proverbs/21-3.htm">Proverbs 21:3</a> To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice. <a href="/matthew/9-13.htm">Matthew 9:13</a> But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” <a href="/mark/12-33.htm">Mark 12:33</a> 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. This is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.” <a href="/hebrews/10-4.htm">Hebrews 10:4-10</a> because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. / Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You prepared for Me. / In burnt offerings and sin offerings You took no delight. ... <a href="/matthew/12-7.htm">Matthew 12:7</a> If only you had known the meaning of ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent. <a href="/psalms/40-6.htm">Psalm 40:6-8</a> Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require. / Then I said, “Here I am, I have come—it is written about me in the scroll: / I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.” <a href="/jeremiah/7-21.htm">Jeremiah 7:21-23</a> This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves! / For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices, / but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you. <a href="/1_corinthians/13-3.htm">1 Corinthians 13:3</a> If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing. <a href="/matthew/15-8.htm">Matthew 15:8-9</a> ‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. / They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’”</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? said 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.what purpose<a href="/isaiah/66-3.htm">Isaiah 66:3</a> He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.<a href="/1_samuel/15-22.htm">1 Samuel 15:22</a> And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.<a href="/psalms/50-8.htm">Psalm 50:8</a> I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.he goats.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ecclesiastes/3-19.htm">Animals</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/3-21.htm">Beasts</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-6.htm">Blood</a> <a href="/psalms/66-15.htm">Bullocks</a> <a href="/psalms/68-30.htm">Bulls</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-7.htm">Burned</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-7.htm">Burnt</a> <a href="/psalms/66-15.htm">Burnt-Offerings</a> <a href="/songs/7-6.htm">Delight</a> <a href="/songs/8-7.htm">Enough</a> <a href="/proverbs/28-25.htm">Fat</a> <a href="/proverbs/15-17.htm">Fattened</a> <a href="/psalms/81-16.htm">Fed</a> <a href="/songs/7-2.htm">Full</a> <a href="/songs/6-5.htm">Goats</a> <a href="/proverbs/27-26.htm">He-Goats</a> <a href="/proverbs/27-26.htm">Lambs</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/2-8.htm">Male</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/11-1.htm">Multitude</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/5-1.htm">Offerings</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/12-8.htm">Purpose</a> <a href="/psalms/114-6.htm">Rams</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/9-2.htm">Sacrifices</a> <a href="/songs/6-6.htm">Sheep</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/10-11.htm">Use</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/isaiah/13-21.htm">Animals</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-20.htm">Beasts</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-15.htm">Blood</a> <a href="/isaiah/34-7.htm">Bullocks</a> <a href="/isaiah/34-7.htm">Bulls</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-31.htm">Burned</a> <a href="/isaiah/9-19.htm">Burnt</a> <a href="/isaiah/40-16.htm">Burnt-Offerings</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-7.htm">Delight</a> <a href="/isaiah/7-13.htm">Enough</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-17.htm">Fat</a> <a href="/isaiah/11-6.htm">Fattened</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-17.htm">Fed</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-15.htm">Full</a> <a href="/isaiah/7-21.htm">Goats</a> <a href="/isaiah/14-9.htm">He-Goats</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-17.htm">Lambs</a> <a href="/isaiah/14-2.htm">Male</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-13.htm">Multitude</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-13.htm">Offerings</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-19.htm">Purpose</a> <a href="/isaiah/34-6.htm">Rams</a> <a href="/isaiah/19-21.htm">Sacrifices</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-17.htm">Sheep</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-6.htm">Use</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 1</div>1. <a href="/isaiah/1-1.htm">Isaiah complains of Judah for her rebellion</a> 5. <a href="/isaiah/1-5.htm">He laments her judgments</a> 10. <a href="/isaiah/1-10.htm">He upbraids their whole service</a> 16. <a href="/isaiah/1-16.htm">He exhorts to repentance, with promises and threats</a> 21. <a href="/isaiah/1-21.htm">Bewailing their wickedness, he denounces God's judgments</a> 25. <a href="/isaiah/1-25.htm">He promises grace</a> 28. <a href="/isaiah/1-28.htm">And threatens destruction to the wicked</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/isaiah/1.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/isaiah/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/isaiah/1.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. This phrase highlights God's dissatisfaction with the Israelites' ritualistic worship. In the historical context, sacrifices were central to Israelite worship as prescribed in the Mosaic Law (Leviticus 1-7). However, God is emphasizing that the mere act of sacrifice, without genuine repentance and obedience, is meaningless. This echoes <a href="/1_samuel/15-22.htm">1 Samuel 15:22</a>, where obedience is valued over sacrifice. The rhetorical question underscores the futility of external religious practices when the heart is far from God.“I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle;” Burnt offerings were a common form of sacrifice intended to atone for sin and express devotion (Leviticus 1). The mention of "rams" and "well-fed cattle" indicates the quality and abundance of the offerings, which were supposed to be the best of the flock. However, God's statement of being "full" suggests that He is overwhelmed and displeased with the insincerity behind these offerings. This reflects a broader biblical theme where God desires mercy and knowledge of Him rather than mere ritual (<a href="/hosea/6-6.htm">Hosea 6:6</a>).“I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.” The blood of these animals was significant in the sacrificial system for atonement (<a href="/leviticus/17-11.htm">Leviticus 17:11</a>). Yet, God declares no pleasure in these sacrifices when they are devoid of true worship and repentance. This anticipates the New Testament revelation that the blood of animals cannot ultimately take away sins (<a href="/hebrews/10-4.htm">Hebrews 10:4</a>). It points to the need for a perfect sacrifice, fulfilled in Jesus Christ, whose blood provides true atonement (<a href="/hebrews/9-12.htm">Hebrews 9:12-14</a>). This phrase challenges believers to examine the sincerity of their worship and the condition of their hearts before God.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/t/the_lord.htm">The LORD (Yahweh)</a> The covenant God of Israel, who is speaking through the prophet Isaiah, expressing His dissatisfaction with the people's empty religious rituals. 2. <a href="/topical/i/isaiah.htm">Isaiah</a> A major prophet in the Old Testament, called by God to deliver messages of both judgment and hope to the people of Judah and Jerusalem. 3. <a href="/topical/j/judah_and_jerusalem.htm">Judah and Jerusalem</a> The southern kingdom of Israel and its capital, where the people were engaging in religious practices that had become hollow and disconnected from true worship and obedience. 4. <a href="/topical/s/sacrifices_and_offerings.htm">Sacrifices and Offerings</a> Rituals commanded in the Mosaic Law, intended to express worship, atonement, and dedication to God, but which had become mere formalities for the people. 5. <a href="/topical/r/rams,_cattle,_bulls,_lambs,_and_goats.htm">Rams, Cattle, Bulls, Lambs, and Goats</a> Animals used in the sacrificial system, representing the people's attempts to fulfill religious obligations without genuine repentance or faith.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/true_worship_over_rituals.htm">True Worship Over Rituals</a> God desires genuine worship that stems from a heart of obedience and love, rather than mere ritualistic practices. Our religious activities should reflect a sincere relationship with God. <a href="/topical/t/the_heart_of_repentance.htm">The Heart of Repentance</a> True repentance involves a change of heart and behavior, not just external compliance. God is looking for a transformation that aligns our lives with His will. <a href="/topical/t/the_danger_of_hypocrisy.htm">The Danger of Hypocrisy</a> Engaging in religious rituals without true devotion can lead to hypocrisy. We must examine our motives and ensure our worship is authentic and pleasing to God. <a href="/topical/g/god's_desire_for_justice_and_mercy.htm">God's Desire for Justice and Mercy</a> Our faith should manifest in actions that promote justice, mercy, and humility. These are the sacrifices that God truly values. <a href="/topical/r/reflecting_christ_in_our_worship.htm">Reflecting Christ in Our Worship</a> As Christians, our worship should reflect the character of Christ, who perfectly embodied obedience and love for the Father. Our lives should be a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_isaiah_1.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 1</a> <a href="/q/spirit_of_freedom_or_slavery.htm">Did you receive a spirit of freedom or slavery?</a> <a href="/q/why_offer_animal_sacrifices_in_leviticus.htm">If a loving God exists, what is the moral rationale for repeatedly offering animal blood and fat as stated in Leviticus 3? </a> <a href="/q/is_the_law_based_on_faith_or_works.htm">Is the law based on faith or works?</a> <a href="/q/why_demand_sacrifices_if_hearts_stray.htm">Why would a supposedly omniscient deity continue to demand repetitive sacrifices in Numbers 29 if the people’s hearts were often wayward? </a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/1.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(11) To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices? . . .--Isaiah carries on the great catena of prophetic utterances as to the conditions of acceptable worship (<a href="/1_samuel/15-22.htm" title="And Samuel said, Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.">1Samuel 15:22</a>; <a href="/psalms/40-6.htm" title="Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; my ears have you opened: burnt offering and sin offering have you not required.">Psalm 40:6</a>; <a href="/context/psalms/50-7.htm" title="Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, even your God.">Psalm 50:7-14</a>; <a href="/context/psalms/51-16.htm" title="For you desire not sacrifice; else would I give it: you delight not in burnt offering.">Psalm 51:16-17</a>). In <a href="/hosea/6-6.htm" title="For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.">Hosea 6:6</a>; <a href="/context/amos/5-21.htm" title="I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.">Amos 5:21-24</a>; <a href="/context/micah/6-6.htm" title="With which shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?">Micah 6:6-8</a> we have the utterances of contemporary prophets, who may have exercised a direct influence on his teaching. The description points primarily, perhaps, to the reign of Uzziah, but may include that of Hezekiah. The account of the sacrifices agrees with <a href="/context/2_chronicles/29-21.htm" title="And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the LORD.">2Chronicles 29:21-29</a>. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/1.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 11. - To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? Cui bono? What good end do they serve? "Thinkest thou that I will eat the flesh of bulls, and drink the blood of goats? "(Psalm 1:13). God "delights not in burnt offerings." From the time of Samuel he had declared, "Behold, to obey is better then sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams" (<a href="/1_samuel/15-22.htm">1 Samuel 15:22</a>). David had said of him, "Sacrifice and meat offering thou wouldest not; burnt offerings and sacrifice for sin hast thou not required" (<a href="/psalms/40-8.htm">Psalm 40:8, 9</a>); and again, "I will not reprove thee because of thy sacrifices, or for thy burnt offerings, because they were not always before me. I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he-goat out of thy folds; for all the beasts of the forest are mine, and so are the cattle upon a thousand hills" (<a href="/psalms/50-8.htm">Psalm 50:8-10</a>). Not, of course, that either David or Isaiah desired to abolish sacrifice, or had any commission so to do; but they were, both of them, anxious to impress on men that sacrifice, by itself, was nothing - that self-dedication, self-renunciation, true devotion of the heart, with its necessary concomitant obedience, must accompany sacrifice, for God to be pleased therewith. The sacrifices of a people such as is described in vers. 21-23 could not but be an offence to him. Saith the Lord. The phrase employed is unusual, and almost confined to Isaiah, occurring elsewhere only in <a href="/psalms/12-5.htm">Psalm 12:5</a>. Isaiah uses it again in ver. 18, and also in <a href="/isaiah/33-10.htm">Isaiah 33:10</a>; <a href="/isaiah/41-21.htm">Isaiah 41:21</a>; and Isaiah 66:9. It is explained to be emphatic, implying that this is what God says, and will say, concerning the matter in hand, once and forever (Kay). I am full of the burnt offerings of rams; rather, I am overfull, satiated, wearied with them. Barns formed a part of the required sacrifice on all great occasions, as at the Passover (<a href="/numbers/28-19.htm">Numbers 28:19</a>), at the Feast of Weeks (<a href="/numbers/28-27.htm">Numbers 28:27</a>), at the Feast of Tabernacles (<a href="/numbers/29-13.htm">Numbers 29:13, 17, 20, 23, 26, 29, 32, 36</a>), at the Feast of Trumpets (<a href="/numbers/29-2.htm">Numbers 29:2</a>), and on the great Day of Atonement (<a href="/numbers/29-8.htm">Numbers 29:8</a>). They were commanded as the sole sacrifice for a trespass offering (<a href="/leviticus/5-16.htm">Leviticus 5:16, 18</a>). Under David were offered on one occasion "a thousand rams" (<a href="/1_chronicles/29-21.htm">1 Chronicles 29:21</a>); and the occasions where seven rams formed the legitimate sacrifice were many. Unaccompanied by a proper frame of mind, each such offering was an offence to God, displeased him, wearied him. The fat of fed beasts. The fat was always regarded, both by the Hebrews and the Greeks, as especially suitable for sacrifice. It was burnt upon the altar in every case, even where the greater part of the victim was consumed as food (see <a href="/leviticus/1-8.htm">Leviticus 1:8, 12</a>; <a href="/leviticus/3-3.htm">Leviticus 3:3, 10</a>, etc.; note particularly the expression in <a href="/leviticus/3-16.htm">Leviticus 3:16</a>, "All the fat is the Lord's"). "Fed beasts" are those which were kept separate in stalls or sheds for some time before the sacrifice, and given food in which there was nothing" unclean." The Paschal lambs were required to be thus separated and fed for four days (<a href="/exodus/12-3.htm">Exodus 12:3, 6</a>). I delight not in the blood. The blood, "which is the life" (<a href="/leviticus/17-14.htm">Leviticus 17:14</a>), was to be sprinkled on the altar in every sacrifice of a victim. This sprinkling was of the very essence of the sacrifice (<a href="/leviticus/1-5.htm">Leviticus 1:5</a>; <a href="/leviticus/3-2.htm">Leviticus 3:2, 8, 13</a>; <a href="/leviticus/4-6.htm">Leviticus 4:6, 17, 25, 30</a>, etc.). Bullocks... lambs... he-goats. These, together with rams, constituted all the sacrificial beasts of the Hebrews. <a href="/commentaries/isaiah/1-11.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>“What is לָמָּה־ (lām·māh-) Interrogative <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4100.htm">Strong's 4100: </a> What?, what!, indefinitely what your multitude רֹב־ (rōḇ-) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7230.htm">Strong's 7230: </a> Multitude, abundance, greatness of sacrifices זִבְחֵיכֶם֙ (ziḇ·ḥê·ḵem) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2077.htm">Strong's 2077: </a> A slaughter, the flesh of an animal, a sacrifice to Me?” לִּ֤י (lî) Preposition | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/.htm">Strong's Hebrew</a> says יֹאמַ֣ר (yō·mar) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_559.htm">Strong's 559: </a> To utter, say the LORD. יְהוָ֔ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel “I am full שָׂבַ֛עְתִּי (śā·ḇa‘·tî) Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7646.htm">Strong's 7646: </a> To be sated, satisfied or surfeited from the burnt offerings עֹל֥וֹת (‘ō·lō·wṯ) Noun - feminine plural construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5930.htm">Strong's 5930: </a> Whole burnt offering of rams אֵילִ֖ים (’ê·lîm) Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_352.htm">Strong's 352: </a> Strength, strong, a chief, a ram, a pilaster, an oak, strong tree and the fat וְחֵ֣לֶב (wə·ḥê·leḇ) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2459.htm">Strong's 2459: </a> Fat, richest, choice part of well-fed cattle; מְרִיאִ֑ים (mə·rî·’îm) Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4806.htm">Strong's 4806: </a> A fatling, fatlings I take no delight חָפָֽצְתִּי׃ (ḥā·p̄ā·ṣə·tî) Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2654.htm">Strong's 2654: </a> To incline to, to bend, to be pleased with, desire in the blood וְדַ֨ם (wə·ḏam) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1818.htm">Strong's 1818: </a> Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed of bulls, פָּרִ֧ים (pā·rîm) Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6499.htm">Strong's 6499: </a> Young bull, steer of lambs וּכְבָשִׂ֛ים (ū·ḵə·ḇā·śîm) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3532.htm">Strong's 3532: </a> A lamb and goats. וְעַתּוּדִ֖ים (wə·‘at·tū·ḏîm) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6260.htm">Strong's 6260: </a> Prepared, full grown, of he-goats, leaders of the people <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/1-11.htm">Isaiah 1:11 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/isaiah/1-11.htm">Isaiah 1:11 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/isaiah/1-11.htm">Isaiah 1:11 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/isaiah/1-11.htm">Isaiah 1:11 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/isaiah/1-11.htm">Isaiah 1:11 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/1-11.htm">Isaiah 1:11 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/1-11.htm">Isaiah 1:11 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/1-11.htm">Isaiah 1:11 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/1-11.htm">Isaiah 1:11 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/isaiah/1-11.htm">Isaiah 1:11 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-11.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 1:11 What are the multitude of your sacrifices (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/1-10.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 1:10"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 1:10" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/1-12.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 1:12"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 1:12" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>