¹¹ What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices?
    says the Lord;
I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
    and the fat of fed beasts;
I do not delight in the blood of bulls
    or of lambs or of goats.^(A)

⁶ For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice,
    the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.^(A)

⁶ “With what shall I come before the Lord
    and bow myself before God on high?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
    with calves a year old?
⁷ Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,
    with ten thousands of rivers of oil?
Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression,
    the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?”^(A)
8 He has told you, O mortal, what is good,
    and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice and to love kindness
    and to walk humbly with your God?^(B)

⁶ in burnt offerings and sin offerings
    you have taken no pleasure.
⁷ Then I said, ‘See, I have come to do your will, O God’
    (in the scroll of the book^[a] it is written of me).”^(A)