14Your 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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I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-15)Here, I. God calls to them (but calls in vain) to hear his word, Isa. 1:10. 1. The title he gives them is very strange; You rulers of Sodom , and people of Gomorrah . This intimates what a righteous thing it would have been with God to make them like Sodom and Gomorrah in respect of ruin (Isa. 1:9), because that had made themselves like Sodom and Gomorrah in respect of sin. The men of Sodom were w…
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