Isaiah 1:12
What does Isaiah 1:12 mean?
A plain-English look at Isaiah 1:12 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to trample my courts?
KJV
King James Version · 1611When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to trample my courts?
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet?
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862When ye come in to appear before Me, Who hath required this of your hand, To trample My courts?
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752When you came to appear before me, who required these things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts?
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this from your hand — to tread my courts?
Context
v.11What 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.
v.12This passage
v.13Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; new moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies,—I cannot away with iniquity and the solemn meeting.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Micah 6:8
He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?
- Psalms 40:6
Sacrifice and offering thou hast no delight in; Mine ears hast thou opened: Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required.
- Matthew 23:5
But all their works they do to be seen of men: for they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
- Isaiah 58:1
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and declare unto my people their transgression, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
- Exodus 23:17
Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord Jehovah.
- Deuteronomy 16:16
Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before Jehovah thy God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles; and they shall not appear before Jehovah empty:
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