Study it in the app“For what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? says YHWH. I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and of the fat of fattened animals; and in the blood of bulls and of lambs and of male goats I do not delight.”
For what purposeלָמָּהis the multitudeרֹבof your sacrificesזִבְחֵיכֶםto me?לִּיsaysיֹאמַרYHWH.יְהוָהI have had enoughשָׂבַעְתִּיof burnt offeringsעֹלוֹתof ramsאֵילִיםand of the fatוְחֵלֶבof fattened animals;מְרִיאִיםand in the bloodוְדַםof bullsפָּרִיםand of lambsוּכְבָשִׂיםand of male goatsוְעַתּוּדִיםI do notלֹאdelight.חָפָצְתִּי
multitude
A great crowd of people or things.
Where else “rov” appearssacrifice
An animal offered to God and eaten together.
Where else “zivche” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomar” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearsbe sated
To have plenty, be fed up.
Where else “savati” appearsburnt offering
A sacrifice burned whole on the altar.
Where else “olot” appearsram
A full-grown male sheep, used as an offering.
Where else “elim” appearsfat
The soft white tissue around an animal's insides, burned for YHWH.
Where else “chelev” appearsfatted animal
Fatted animal: a beast fattened for a meal or a special sacrifice.
Where else “meriim” appearsblood
The red fluid that runs through the body and carries the life of people and animals.
Where else “dam” appearsbull
Young bull, bullock.
Where else “parim” appearslamb
Lamb: a young sheep, male (a young ram).
Where else “chevasim” appearsmale goat
The male of the goat, offered in sacrifice.
Where else “atudim” appearsdelight in
To take pleasure in someone or something and look on it with favor.
Where else “chafatsti” appears10Hear the word of YHWH, rulers of Sodom; listen to the instruction of our Elohim, people of Gomorrah!
11 · This verse (above)
12When you come to appear before my face, who required this from your hand, the trampling of my courts?
