Isaiah 43:24

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

No sweet

Exodus 30:7

Jeremiah 6:20

Neither

Leviticus 3:16

Leviticus 4:31

Psalm 50:9

Thou hast made

General references

Psalm 50:9

Amos 5:25

Bible References

No sweet

And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet cense every morning when he dresseth the lamps:

Wherefore bring ye me incense from Sheba, and sweet smelling Calamus from far countries? Your burnt offerings displease me, and I rejoice not in your sacrifices.

Neither

And the priest shall burn them upon the alter to feed the LORD's sacrifice withal and to make a sweet savour. And thus shall all the fat be the LORD's,

and shall take away all his fat as the fat of the peace offerings is taken away. And the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the LORD, and the priest shall make an atonement for him and it shall be forgiven him.

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

Thou hast made

I hate your new holidays and fastings, even from my very heart. I cannot away with such vanity and holding in of the people. They lay upon me as a burden, and I am weary of bearing them!

Wherefore the LORD said, "Hearken, ye of the house of David: Is it so small a thing for you, to be grievous to men, but that ye should also be painful unto God?

But after they provoked him to wrath and vexed his holy mind, he was their enemy, and fought against them himself.

Forty years long was I grieved with that generation, and said, "They ever err in their hearts, they verily have not known my ways."

And they that escape from you, shall think upon me among the Heathen, where they shall be in captivity. As for that whorish and unfaithful heart of theirs, wherewith they run away from me, I will break it: Yea, and put out those eyes of theirs, that committed fornication with their idols. Then shall they be ashamed, and displeased with their selves, for the wickedness and abominations, which they have done:

Seeing thou rememberest not the days of thy youth, but hast provoked me to wrath in all these things? Behold therefore, I will bring thine own ways upon thine head, sayeth the LORD God: howbeit, I never did unto thee, according to thy wickedness and all thy abominations.

Behold, I will crash you in sunder, like as a wain crasheth, that is full of sheaves:

Cursed be the dissembler, which hath in his flock one that is male, and when he maketh a vow, offereth a spotted one unto the LORD. For I am a great King, sayeth the LORD of Hosts, and my name is fearful among the Heathen.

Now have ye brought it to this point again, that the altar of the LORD is covered with tears, weeping, and mourning: so that I will no more regard the meat offering, neither will I receive or accept anything at your hands.

General references

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

O ye house of Israel, gave ye me offerings and sacrifices those forty years long in the wilderness?