“ I hate all your show and pretense— the hypocrisy of your religious festivals and solemn assemblies.

“我厌恶你们的节期，也不喜悦你们的严肃会。

“我厌恶你们的节期，也不喜悦你们的严肃会。

“我厌恶你们的节期，也不喜悦你们的严肃会。

“我憎恶、鄙弃你们的节期，厌恶你们的圣会。

我憎恨、厌恶你们的节期，也不喜爱你们的节日。

我厭惡你們的節期，也不喜悅你們的嚴肅會。

「我厭惡你們的節期，也不喜悅你們的嚴肅會。

「我厭惡你們的節期，也不喜悅你們的嚴肅會。

「我憎惡、鄙棄你們的節期，厭惡你們的聖會。

我憎恨、厭惡你們的節期，也不喜愛你們的節日。

『我恨惡、我鄙視你們的節期，我不聞你們聖節會中的氣味。

爾之節期、我厭惡之、爾之肅會、我不悅之、

爾設節期、我所深憾、爾立大會、我甚不悅、

爾之節期、我憎惡厭棄、厭棄或作輕視爾大會之日、我甚不悅、爾大會之日我甚不悅或作爾聖會所獻之祭我不享之

“ I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me.

The Lord says,“ I hate your holy feasts. I can’t stand them. Your gatherings stink.

“ I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.

I hate, I despise, your feasts! I can’t stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.

“ I hate, I reject your festivals, Nor do I delight in your festive assemblies.

“ I hate, I despise your feast days, And I do not savor your sacred assemblies.

I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.

I hate, I despise your feasts! I can’t stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.

I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

“ I absolutely despise your festivals! I get no pleasure from your religious assemblies!

I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.

I will make your cities desolate and destroy your places of pagan worship. I will take no pleasure in your offerings that should be a pleasing aroma to me.

There’s no use offering me sweet frankincense from Sheba. Keep your fragrant calamus imported from distant lands! I will not accept your burnt offerings. Your sacrifices have no pleasing aroma for me.”

“ What makes you think I want all your sacrifices?” says the Lord.“ I am sick of your burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fattened cattle. I get no pleasure from the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.When you come to worship me, who asked you to parade through my courts with all your ceremony?Stop bringing me your meaningless gifts; the incense of your offerings disgusts me! As for your celebrations of the new moon and the Sabbath and your special days for fasting— they are all sinful and false. I want no more of your pious meetings.I hate your new moon celebrations and your annual festivals. They are a burden to me. I cannot stand them!When you lift up your hands in prayer, I will not look. Though you offer many prayers, I will not listen, for your hands are covered with the blood of innocent victims.Wash yourselves and be clean! Get your sins out of my sight. Give up your evil ways.

But those who choose their own ways— delighting in their detestable sins— will not have their offerings accepted. When such people sacrifice a bull, it is no more acceptable than a human sacrifice. When they sacrifice a lamb, it’s as though they had sacrificed a dog! When they bring an offering of grain, they might as well offer the blood of a pig. When they burn frankincense, it’s as if they had blessed an idol.

The people love to offer sacrifices to me, feasting on the meat, but I do not accept their sacrifices. I will hold my people accountable for their sins, and I will punish them. They will return to Egypt.

God detests the prayers of a person who ignores the law.

The sacrifice of an evil person is detestable, especially when it is offered with wrong motives.

The Lord detests the sacrifice of the wicked, but he delights in the prayers of the upright.

“ What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you shut the door of the Kingdom of Heaven in people’s faces. You won’t go in yourselves, and you don’t let others enter either.

And the Lord was pleased with the aroma of the sacrifice and said to himself,“ I will never again curse the ground because of the human race, even though everything they think or imagine is bent toward evil from childhood. I will never again destroy all living things.

Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God.

At the moment I have all I need— and more! I am generously supplied with the gifts you sent me with Epaphroditus. They are a sweet smelling sacrifice that is acceptable and pleasing to God.

This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says:“ Take your burnt offerings and your other sacrifices and eat them yourselves!When I led your ancestors out of Egypt, it was not burnt offerings and sacrifices I wanted from them.This is what I told them:‘ Obey me, and I will be your God, and you will be my people. Do everything as I say, and all will be well!’