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Micah 6:6-7
What should I bring before the LORD when I come to bow before God on high? Should I come before him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves?Would the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams or with ten thousand streams of oil? Should I give my firstborn for my transgression, the offspring of my body for my own sin?
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Proverbs 1:28
Then they will call me, but I won’t answer; they will search for me, but won’t find me.
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John 7:34
You will look for me, but you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come.”
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Lamentations 3:44
You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.
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Isaiah 1:11-15
“ What are all your sacrifices to me?” asks the LORD.“ I have had enough of burnt offerings and rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I have no desire for the blood of bulls, lambs, or male goats.When you come to appear before me, who requires this from you— this trampling of my courts?Stop bringing useless offerings. Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons and Sabbaths, and the calling of solemn assemblies— I cannot stand iniquity with a festival.I hate your New Moons and prescribed festivals. They have become a burden to me; I am tired of putting up with them.When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will refuse to look at you; even if you offer countless prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
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Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
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Ezekiel 8:6
He said to me,“ Son of man, do you see what they are doing here— more detestable acts that the house of Israel is committing— so that I must depart from my sanctuary? You will see even more detestable acts.”
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Jeremiah 7:4
Do not trust deceitful words, chanting,“ This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.”
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Jeremiah 11:11
“ Therefore, this is what the LORD says: I am about to bring on them disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to me, but I will not hear them.
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Isaiah 66:3
One person slaughters an ox, another kills a person; one person sacrifices a lamb, another breaks a dog’s neck; one person offers a grain offering, another offers pig’s blood; one person offers incense, another praises an idol— all these have chosen their ways and delight in their abhorrent practices.
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Exodus 10:9
Moses replied,“ We will go with our young and with our old; we will go with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds because we must hold the LORD’s festival.”
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Song of Solomon 5 6
I opened to my love, but my love had turned and gone away. My heart sank because he had left. I sought him, but did not find him. I called him, but he did not answer.
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Amos 5:21-23
I hate, I despise, your feasts! I can’t stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.Even if you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; I will have no regard for your fellowship offerings of fattened cattle.Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
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Exodus 10:24-26
Pharaoh summoned Moses and said,“ Go, worship the LORD. Even your families may go with you; only your flocks and herds must stay behind.”Moses responded,“ You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings to prepare for the LORD our God.Even our livestock must go with us; not a hoof will be left behind because we will take some of them to worship the LORD our God. We will not know what we will use to worship the LORD until we get there.”
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Ezekiel 8:18
Therefore I will respond with wrath. I will not show pity or spare them. Though they call loudly in my hearing, I will not listen to them.”
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Luke 5:16
Yet he often withdrew to deserted places and prayed.
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Proverbs 21:27
The sacrifice of a wicked person is detestable— how much more so when he brings it with ulterior motives!
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Micah 3:4
Then they will cry out to the LORD, but he will not answer them. He will hide his face from them at that time because of the crimes they have committed.