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Whenכִּיyou comeתָבֹאוּto appearלֵרָאוֹתbefore my face,פָּנָיwhoמִיrequiredבִקֵּשׁthisזֹאתfrom your hand,מִיֶּדְכֶםthe tramplingרְמֹסof my courts?חֲצֵרָי
Isaiah 1:12
Study it in the app“When you come to appear before my face, who required this from your hand, the trampling of my courts?”
With the Hebrew beneath
Isaiah 1:12, word by word
- you comeתָבֹאוּtavou
come
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “tavou” appears- to appearרָאוֹתraot
appear
To let oneself be seen: YHWH let Abram see him.
Where else “raot” appears- before my faceפָּנָpana
face
The front of the head, of someone or of God.
Where else “pana” appears- requiredבִקֵּשׁvikesh
require
To hold someone answerable.
Where else “vikesh” appears- from your handיֶּדְyed
hand
The part of the body with which one takes, gives and works; also what one does.
Where else “yed” appears- the tramplingרְמֹסremos
trample
Tread, trample with the feet: the potter's clay, grapes, or a person or thing crushed under those passing by. In 2 Kings 7:17, 20 the people, rushing out through the gate, trample the officer and he dies.
Where else “remos” appears- of my courtsחֲצֵרָchatsera
court
An enclosed open space, like the temple's.
Where else “chatsera” appears
The context
11For 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.
12 · This verse (above)
13Do not keep bringing a false offering; incense is an abomination to me; new moon and Sabbath, the calling of a convocation I cannot bear wickedness with a solemn assembly.