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this trampling of my courts?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/1.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you—this trampling of My courts?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/isaiah/1.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/isaiah/1.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />“When you come to appear before Me, Who has required this from your hand, To trample My courts?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/isaiah/1.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“When you come to appear before Me, Who requires of you this trampling of My courtyards?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/isaiah/1.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220When you come to appear before Me, Who requires of you this trampling of My courts?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/isaiah/1.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“When you come to appear before Me, Who requires of you this trampling of My courts?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/isaiah/1.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />When you come to appear before Me, Who requires of you this trampling of My courts?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/isaiah/1.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“When you come to appear before Me, Who requires this of you, this trampling of My [temple] courts [by your sinful feet]?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/isaiah/1.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />When you come to appear before me, who requires this from you — this trampling of my courts?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/isaiah/1.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />When you come to appear before Me, who requires this from you— this trampling of My courts? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/isaiah/1.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to trample my courts?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/isaiah/1.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />"Who asked you to bring all this when you come to worship me? Stay out of my temple! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/isaiah/1.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to trample my courts?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/isaiah/1.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />When you appear in my presence, who asked you to trample on my courtyards?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/isaiah/1.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Who asked you to bring me all this when you come to worship me? Who asked you to do all this tramping around in my Temple? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/isaiah/1.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"When you come to present yourselves in my presence, who has required you to trample on my courts?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/isaiah/1.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />When you enter my presence, do you actually think I want this--animals trampling on my courtyards? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/isaiah/1.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/isaiah/1.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?<div class="vheading2"><b>Majority Text Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/isaiah/1.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you—this trampling of My courts?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/isaiah/1.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts? <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/isaiah/1.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />When you come to appear before Me, "" Who has required this of your hand, "" To trample My courts?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/isaiah/1.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> When ye come in to appear before Me, Who hath required this of your hand, To trample My courts?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/isaiah/1.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />When ye shall come to be seen before me who sought this from your hand to tread my enclosure.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/isaiah/1.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />When you came to appear before me, who required these things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/isaiah/1.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />When you approach before my sight, who is it that requires these things from your hands, so that you would walk in my courts?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/isaiah/1.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />When you come to appear before me, who asks these things of you? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/1.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />When you come to appear before me, who asked this from your hand? Trample my courts no more;<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/1.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to tread my courts?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/isaiah/1.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />When you will come to see my face, who desires these things from your hands to tread my courts?<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/isaiah/1.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />When ye come to appear before Me, Who hath required this at your hand, To trample My courts?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/isaiah/1.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />neither shall ye come <i>with these</i> to appear before me; for who has required these things at your hands? Ye shall no more tread my court.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/1-12.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=138" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/1.htm">Meaningless Offerings</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">11</span>“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. <span class="reftext">12</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">When</a> <a href="/hebrew/935.htm" title="935: ṯā·ḇō·’ū (V-Qal-Imperf-2mp) -- To come in, come, go in, go. A primitive root; to go or come.">you come</a> <a href="/hebrew/7200.htm" title="7200: lê·rā·’ō·wṯ (Prep-l:: V-Nifal-Inf) -- To see. A primitive root; to see, literally or figuratively.">to appear</a> <a href="/hebrew/6440.htm" title="6440: pā·nāy (N-mpc:: 1cs) -- Face, faces. Plural of an unused noun; the face; used in a great variety of applications; also as a preposition.">before Me,</a> <a href="/hebrew/4310.htm" title="4310: mî- (Interrog) -- An interrogative pronoun of persons, as mah is of things, who?; also whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix.">who</a> <a href="/hebrew/1245.htm" title="1245: ḇiq·qêš (V-Piel-Perf-3ms) -- To seek. A primitive root; to search out; by implication, to strive after.">has required</a> <a href="/hebrew/2063.htm" title="2063: zōṯ (Pro-fs) -- Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that. Irregular feminine of zeh; this.">this</a> <a href="/hebrew/3027.htm" title="3027: mî·yeḏ·ḵem (Prep-m:: N-fsc:: 2mp) -- Hand (indicating power, means, direction, etc.)">of you—</a> <a href="/hebrew/7429.htm" title="7429: rə·mōs (V-Qal-Inf) -- To trample. A primitive root; to tread upon.">this trampling</a> <a href="/hebrew/2691.htm" title="2691: ḥă·ṣê·rāy (N-cpc:: 1cs) -- A yard, a hamlet.">of My courts?</a> </span><span class="reftext">13</span>Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me—your New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations. I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/5-21.htm">Amos 5:21-23</a></span><br />“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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/micah/6-6.htm">Micah 6:6-8</a></span><br />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?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/7-21.htm">Jeremiah 7:21-23</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/6-6.htm">Hosea 6:6</a></span><br />For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/15-8.htm">Matthew 15:8-9</a></span><br />‘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.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/mark/7-6.htm">Mark 7:6-7</a></span><br />Jesus answered them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘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.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/50-8.htm">Psalm 50:8-14</a></span><br />I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me. / I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens, / for every beast of the forest is Mine—the cattle on a thousand hills. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_samuel/15-22.htm">1 Samuel 15:22</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/21-3.htm">Proverbs 21:3</a></span><br />To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/23-23.htm">Matthew 23:23</a></span><br />Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/11-42.htm">Luke 11:42</a></span><br />Woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithes of mint, rue, and every herb, but you disregard justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the former.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/10-5.htm">Hebrews 10:5-8</a></span><br />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. / Then I said, ‘Here I am, it is written about Me in the scroll: I have come to do Your will, O God.’” ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/66-3.htm">Isaiah 66:3</a></span><br />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 blood; whoever offers frankincense is like one who blesses an idol. Indeed, they have chosen their own ways and delighted in their abominations.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/malachi/1-10.htm">Malachi 1:10</a></span><br />“Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle useless fires on My altar! I take no pleasure in you,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zechariah/7-5.htm">Zechariah 7:5-6</a></span><br />“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted? / And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to tread my courts?</p><p class="hdg">when</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/58-1.htm">Isaiah 58:1,2</a></b></br> Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/23-17.htm">Exodus 23:17</a></b></br> Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/34-23.htm">Exodus 34:23</a></b></br> Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.</p><p class="hdg">appear.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/40-6.htm">Psalm 40:6</a></b></br> Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/micah/6-8.htm">Micah 6:8</a></b></br> He hath shewed thee, O man, what <i>is</i> good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/songs/7-12.htm">Appear</a> <a href="/psalms/135-2.htm">Courts</a> <a href="/songs/7-1.htm">Feet</a> <a href="/songs/8-3.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-8.htm">House</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/12-12.htm">Making</a> <a href="/proverbs/30-7.htm">Request</a> <a href="/proverbs/30-7.htm">Required</a> <a href="/psalms/9-12.htm">Requires</a> <a href="/proverbs/6-3.htm">Trample</a> <a href="/psalms/68-30.htm">Trampling</a> <a href="/proverbs/30-29.htm">Tread</a> <a href="/songs/5-3.htm">Unclean</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/isaiah/49-9.htm">Appear</a> <a href="/isaiah/62-9.htm">Courts</a> <a href="/isaiah/3-16.htm">Feet</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-25.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-2.htm">House</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-15.htm">Making</a> <a href="/isaiah/7-11.htm">Request</a> <a href="/ezekiel/34-11.htm">Required</a> <a href="/daniel/2-11.htm">Requires</a> <a href="/isaiah/7-25.htm">Trample</a> <a href="/isaiah/22-5.htm">Trampling</a> <a href="/isaiah/7-25.htm">Tread</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-25.htm">Unclean</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 1</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/1-1.htm">Isaiah complains of Judah for her rebellion</a></span><br><span class="reftext">5. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/1-5.htm">He laments her judgments</a></span><br><span class="reftext">10. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/1-10.htm">He upbraids their whole service</a></span><br><span class="reftext">16. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/1-16.htm">He exhorts to repentance, with promises and threats</a></span><br><span class="reftext">21. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/1-21.htm">Bewailing their wickedness, he denounces God's judgments</a></span><br><span class="reftext">25. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/1-25.htm">He promises grace</a></span><br><span class="reftext">28. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/1-28.htm">And threatens destruction to the wicked</a></span><br></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'; 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In ancient Israel, appearing before God was a significant act, often associated with festivals and sacrifices (<a href="/exodus/23-17.htm">Exodus 23:17</a>). The temple in Jerusalem was the central place of worship, symbolizing God's presence among His people. This approach was meant to be reverent and sincere, reflecting a heart aligned with God's will.<p><b>who has required this of you—</b><br>Here, God questions the people's motives and the authenticity of their worship. The rhetorical question suggests that their actions are not in line with what God truly desires. This echoes the prophetic theme that God values obedience and righteousness over ritualistic practices (<a href="/1_samuel/15-22.htm">1 Samuel 15:22</a>). The prophets often called out empty religious practices that lacked genuine devotion and ethical living.<p><b>this trampling of My courts?</b><br>The term "trampling" conveys a sense of disrespect and irreverence. The courts refer to the temple courts, where worshippers gathered. This imagery suggests that the people are treating sacred spaces with contempt, reducing worship to mere ritual without heartfelt devotion. This critique aligns with other prophetic messages that condemn superficial worship (<a href="/jeremiah/7-9.htm">Jeremiah 7:9-11</a>). The temple, a type of Christ as the ultimate meeting place between God and humanity, is being dishonored by insincere worship.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/i/isaiah.htm">Isaiah</a></b><br>A major prophet in the Old Testament, Isaiah is the author of the book that bears his name. He prophesied to the Kingdom of Judah during a time of moral and spiritual decline.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/j/judah.htm">Judah</a></b><br>The southern kingdom of Israel, which was the primary audience of Isaiah's prophecies. The people of Judah were often called to repentance due to their disobedience and idolatry.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_temple_courts.htm">The Temple Courts</a></b><br>The physical location where the Israelites would come to worship God. In this context, it represents the religious practices and rituals of the people.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/g/god.htm">God</a></b><br>The speaker in this verse, expressing His displeasure with the empty rituals of His people.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/r/religious_rituals.htm">Religious Rituals</a></b><br>The practices and ceremonies that the Israelites were performing, which had become empty and meaningless in the eyes of God.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_danger_of_empty_rituals.htm">The Danger of Empty Rituals</a></b><br>God desires genuine worship and obedience, not mere outward rituals. Our religious practices should reflect a heart truly devoted to God.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/self-examination_in_worship.htm">Self-Examination in Worship</a></b><br>Believers should regularly examine their motives in worship. Are we going through the motions, or are we truly seeking to honor God with our lives?<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_call_to_authenticity.htm">The Call to Authenticity</a></b><br>Authentic faith is marked by a life that aligns with God's commands. Our actions should reflect our beliefs, demonstrating integrity and sincerity.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_desire_for_relationship.htm">God's Desire for Relationship</a></b><br>God seeks a personal relationship with His people, not just ritualistic observance. We are called to engage with Him in a meaningful way.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/repentance_and_renewal.htm">Repentance and Renewal</a></b><br>When we recognize areas of empty ritual in our lives, we should repent and seek renewal, asking God to transform our hearts and minds.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_isaiah_1.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 1</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_can't_good_works_save_people.htm">Why can't people be saved by doing good works?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_can_a_woman_wear_the_sun.htm">How can a woman be 'clothed with the sun' (Revelation 12:1) without violating basic scientific laws?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_to_view_eunuchs_in_modern_gender_terms.htm">How should we understand Jesus's mention of eunuchs (Matthew 19:12) in light of modern biology and gender concepts?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_is_vicarious_atonement.htm">What is the concept of vicarious atonement?</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>(12) <span class= "bld">When ye come to appear before me.</span>--Literally, <span class= "ital">before my face. </span>This is the meaning given by the present Hebrew text, and it is, of course, adequate. The Syriac version and some modern scholars (<span class= "ital">e.g., </span>Cheyne) adopt a reading which gives <span class= "ital">to see my face. </span>In either case the implied thought is that the worshippers believed they came into the more immediate presence of Jehovah when, they entered the Temple courts. To "appear before God" was the normal phrase for visiting the Temple at the three great Feasts and other solemn occasions (<a href="/exodus/34-23.htm" title="Thrice in the year shall all your male children appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel.">Exodus 34:23</a>; <a href="/psalms/42-3.htm" title="My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say to me, Where is your God?">Psalm 42:3</a>; <a href="/psalms/84-7.htm" title="They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appears before God.">Psalm 84:7</a>).<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/1.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 12.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">When ye come to appear before me.</span> Mr. Cheyne translates, "to see my face;" but most other commentators (Gesenius, Delitzsch, Ewald, Kay) regard the phrase used as equivalent to that employed in <a href="/exodus/23-17.htm">Exodus 23:17</a>; <a href="/exodus/34-23.htm">Exodus 34:23</a>; <a href="/deuteronomy/16-16.htm">Deuteronomy 16:16</a>; and the passage as referring to that attendance in the temple at the three great annual festivals, which was required of all adult male Israelites. The requirement of the Law was still observed in the letter, but not in the <span class="cmt_word">spirit</span>. They came with no true religious object. Hence the question which follows: <span class="cmt_word">Who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?</span> <span class="accented">This</span> was not what God had enjoined - a mere bodily attendance, a <span class="accented">trampling</span> of his courts with their feet, when their hearts were far from him. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/isaiah/1-12.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">When</span><br /><span class="heb">כִּ֣י</span> <span class="translit">(kî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> </span><span class="str2">A relative conjunction</span><br /><br /><span class="word">you come</span><br /><span class="heb">תָבֹ֔אוּ</span> <span class="translit">(ṯā·ḇō·’ū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_935.htm">Strong's 935: </a> </span><span class="str2">To come in, come, go in, go</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to appear</span><br /><span class="heb">לֵרָא֖וֹת</span> <span class="translit">(lê·rā·’ō·wṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Verb - Nifal - Infinitive construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7200.htm">Strong's 7200: </a> </span><span class="str2">To see</span><br /><br /><span class="word">before Me,</span><br /><span class="heb">פָּנָ֑י</span> <span class="translit">(pā·nāy)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6440.htm">Strong's 6440: </a> </span><span class="str2">The face</span><br /><br /><span class="word">who</span><br /><span class="heb">מִי־</span> <span class="translit">(mî-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Interrogative<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4310.htm">Strong's 4310: </a> </span><span class="str2">Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix</span><br /><br /><span class="word">has required</span><br /><span class="heb">בִקֵּ֥שׁ</span> <span class="translit">(ḇiq·qêš)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1245.htm">Strong's 1245: </a> </span><span class="str2">To search out, to strive after</span><br /><br /><span class="word">this</span><br /><span class="heb">זֹ֛את</span> <span class="translit">(zōṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Pronoun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2063.htm">Strong's 2063: </a> </span><span class="str2">Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that, </span><br /><br /><span class="word">of you—</span><br /><span class="heb">מִיֶּדְכֶ֖ם</span> <span class="translit">(mî·yeḏ·ḵem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-m | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3027.htm">Strong's 3027: </a> </span><span class="str2">A hand</span><br /><br /><span class="word">this trampling</span><br /><span class="heb">רְמֹ֥ס</span> <span class="translit">(rə·mōs)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7429.htm">Strong's 7429: </a> </span><span class="str2">To tread upon</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of My courts?</span><br /><span class="heb">חֲצֵרָֽי׃</span> <span class="translit">(ḥă·ṣê·rāy)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - common plural construct | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2691.htm">Strong's 2691: </a> </span><span class="str2">A yard, a hamlet</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/1-12.htm">Isaiah 1:12 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/isaiah/1-12.htm">Isaiah 1:12 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/isaiah/1-12.htm">Isaiah 1:12 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/isaiah/1-12.htm">Isaiah 1:12 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/isaiah/1-12.htm">Isaiah 1:12 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/1-12.htm">Isaiah 1:12 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/1-12.htm">Isaiah 1:12 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/1-12.htm">Isaiah 1:12 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/1-12.htm">Isaiah 1:12 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/isaiah/1-12.htm">Isaiah 1:12 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/isaiah/1-12.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 1:12 When you come to appear before me (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/1-11.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 1:11"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 1:11" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/1-13.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 1:13"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 1:13" /></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>