Hosea 5:6
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6 “With their flocks and herds
(A)They shall go to seek the Lord,
But they will not find Him;
He has withdrawn Himself from them.
John 7:34
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34 You (A)will seek Me and not find Me, and where I am you (B)cannot come.”
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Micah 6:6-7
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6 With what shall I come before the Lord,
And bow myself before the High God?
Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings,
With calves a year old?
7 (A)Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,
Ten thousand (B)rivers of oil?
(C)Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression,
[a]The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Footnotes
- Micah 6:7 My own child
Proverbs 1:28
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28 “Then(A) they will call on me, but I will not answer;
They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me.
Ezekiel 8:6
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6 Furthermore He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great (A)abominations that the house of Israel commits here, to make Me go far away from My sanctuary? Now turn again, you will see greater abominations.”
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Lamentations 3:44
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44 You have covered Yourself with a cloud,
That prayer should not pass through.
Jeremiah 7:4
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4 (A)Do not trust in these lying words, saying, ‘The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord are these.’
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Isaiah 1:11-15
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11 “To what purpose is the multitude of your (A)sacrifices to Me?”
Says the Lord.
“I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
And the fat of fed cattle.
I do not delight in the blood of bulls,
Or of lambs or goats.
12 “When you come (B)to appear before Me,
Who has required this from your hand,
To trample My courts?
13 Bring no more (C)futile[a] sacrifices;
Incense is an abomination to Me.
The New Moons, the Sabbaths, and (D)the calling of assemblies—
I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting.
14 Your (E)New Moons and your (F)appointed feasts
My soul hates;
They are a trouble to Me,
I am weary of bearing them.
15 (G)When you [b]spread out your hands,
I will hide My eyes from you;
(H)Even though you make many prayers,
I will not hear.
Your hands are full of [c]blood.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 1:13 worthless
- Isaiah 1:15 Pray
- Isaiah 1:15 bloodshed
Proverbs 15:8
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8 (A)The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,
But the prayer of the upright is His delight.
Luke 5:16
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16 (A)So He Himself often withdrew into the wilderness and (B)prayed.
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Amos 5:21-23
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21 “I(A) hate, I despise your feast days,
And (B)I do not savor your sacred assemblies.
22 (C)Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings,
I will not accept them,
Nor will I regard your fattened peace offerings.
23 Take away from Me the noise of your songs,
For I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments.
Jeremiah 11:11
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11 Therefore thus says the Lord: “Behold, I will surely bring calamity on them which they will not be able to [a]escape; and (A)though they cry out to Me, I will not listen to them.
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- Jeremiah 11:11 Lit. go out
Isaiah 66:3
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3 “He(A) who kills a bull is as if he slays a man;
He who sacrifices a lamb, as if he (B)breaks a dog’s neck;
He who offers a grain offering, as if he offers swine’s blood;
He who burns incense, as if he blesses an idol.
Just as they have chosen their own ways,
And their soul delights in their abominations,
Proverbs 21:27
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27 (A)The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination;
How much more when he brings it with wicked intent!
Exodus 10:24-26
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24 Then Pharaoh called to Moses and (A)said, “Go, serve the Lord; only let your flocks and your herds be kept back. Let your (B)little ones also go with you.”
25 But Moses said, “You must also give [a]us sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God. 26 Our (C)livestock also shall go with us; not a hoof shall be left behind. For we must take some of them to serve the Lord our God, and even we do not know with what we must serve the Lord until we arrive there.”
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- Exodus 10:25 Lit. into our hands
Exodus 10:9
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9 And Moses said, “We will go with our young and our old; with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds we will go, for (A)we must hold a feast to the Lord.”
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Micah 3:4
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4 Then (A)they will cry to the Lord,
But He will not hear them;
He will even hide His face from them at that time,
Because they have been evil in their deeds.
Ezekiel 8:18
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18 (A)Therefore I also will act in fury. My (B)eye will not spare nor will I have pity; and though they (C)cry in My ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them.”
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