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I made all these things with my own hands.
    That is how everything began.’

The Lord says,

‘I am pleased with people who are humble.
Those people are sorry when they do wrong things.
    They respect my teaching.
You may kill a bull as a sacrifice to me,
    but you might also kill a man.
You may offer a lamb to me as a sacrifice,
    but you might also break a dog's neck to offer to your idols.
You may give me a grain offering,
    but you also offer pigs' blood.
You may burn incense to worship me
    but you also worship false gods.
Yes, these people have chosen how they want to live.
    They love to do these disgusting things.
So I will cause great trouble to come to them.
    It will be the trouble that they are so afraid of.
When I called out to them,
    nobody answered me.
When I spoke to them,
    nobody listened.
They did evil things against me.
    They chose to do things that I would hate.’

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Has not my hand made all these things,(A)
    and so they came into being?”
declares the Lord.

“These are the ones I look on with favor:
    those who are humble and contrite in spirit,(B)
    and who tremble at my word.(C)
But whoever sacrifices a bull(D)
    is like one who kills a person,
and whoever offers a lamb
    is like one who breaks a dog’s neck;
whoever makes a grain offering
    is like one who presents pig’s(E) blood,
and whoever burns memorial incense(F)
    is like one who worships an idol.
They have chosen their own ways,(G)
    and they delight in their abominations;(H)
so I also will choose harsh treatment for them
    and will bring on them what they dread.(I)
For when I called, no one answered,(J)
    when I spoke, no one listened.
They did evil(K) in my sight
    and chose what displeases me.”(L)

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