Quotes About Sacrifice

He has rejected your calf, O Samaria. My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of innocence?

Though Ephraim multiplied the altars for sin, they became his altars for sinning.

Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.

They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD, and their sacrifices will not please Him, but will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat will be defiled. For their bread will be for themselves; it will not enter the house of the LORD.

I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a meadow. But Ephraim will bring out his children for slaughter.

But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.

Is there iniquity in Gilead? They will surely come to nothing. Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Indeed, their altars will be heaps of stones in the furrows of the field.

Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say of them, “They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves!”

Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD.

Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes—joy and gladness from the house of our God?

They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.

For you took My silver and gold and carried off My finest treasures to your temples.

For I will avenge their blood, which I have not yet avenged.” For the LORD dwells in Zion.

They lie down beside every altar on garments taken in pledge. And in the house of their God, they drink wine obtained through fines.

“But you made the Nazirites drink wine and commanded the prophets not to prophesy.

“Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days.

Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord GOD.

“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.

Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.

Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.

asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.