^15 (A)Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him?
And ^(B)what profit do we have if we pray to Him?’

⁹ For ^(A)he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing
That he should delight in God.’

¹³ You also say,
‘Oh, what a ^(A)weariness!’
And you sneer at it,”
Says the Lord of hosts.
“And you bring the stolen, the lame, and the sick;
Thus you bring an offering!
^(B)Should I accept this from your hand?”
Says the Lord.
¹⁴ “But cursed be ^(C)the deceiver
Who has in his flock a male,
And takes a vow,
But sacrifices to the Lord ^(D)what is blemished—
For ^(E)I am a great King,”
Says the Lord of hosts,
“And My name is to be feared among the nations.

^6 (A)When they had pasture, they were filled;
They were filled and their heart was exalted;
Therefore they forgot Me.

¹⁹ I have not spoken in ^(A)secret,
In a dark place of the earth;
I did not say to the seed of Jacob,
‘Seek Me ^[a]in vain’;
^(B)I, the Lord, speak righteousness,
I declare things that are right.

¹¹ Get out of the way,
Turn aside from the path,
Cause the Holy One of Israel
To cease from before us.”