Isaiah 1:13-14 NLT,NIV,ESV

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:13

Bring no more vain oblations. The command is net "Bring no more oblations, "as though the daily oblation was to cease; but "bring no more oblations that are vain ones, " i.e. empty and unreal—mere forms, without the proper corresponding spirit. The "oblation" spoken of is the minchah , or "meat offering," cf. Le Isaiah 2:1-11 ; Numbers 28:12-31 , which was a cake of fine flour mingled with oil, and generally had incense joined with it, which explains the nexus of this clause with... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 1:14

Your new moons. (For the ceremonies to be observed at the opening of each month, see Numbers 28:11-15 .) Your appointed feasts. The "appointed feasts" are the great festival-times—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. They do not include the sabbath or the "new moon, "with which they are, both here and elsewhere ( 1 Chronicles 23:31 ; 2 Chronicles 31:3 ), contrasted. They are a trouble unto me; literally, an encumbrance (see Deuteronomy... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 1:13

Bring no more - God does not intend absolutely to forbid this kind of worship, but he expresses his strong abhorrence of the manner in which it was done. He desired a better state of mind; he preferred purity of heart to all this external homage.Vain - Hebrew “offering of vanity” - שׁוא shâv' - offerings which were hollow, false, deceitful, and hypocritical.Oblations - מנחת minchath. This word properly denotes a gift, or present, of any kind Genesis 32:13, and then especially a present or... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 1:14

Your appointed feasts - That is, your assemblies convened on regular set times - מועד mô‛êd, from יעד yâ‛ad, to fix, to appoint. Hengstenberg (Chris. iii. p. 87) has shown that this word (מועדים mô‛ĕdı̂ym) is applied in the Scriptures only to the sabbath, passover, pentecost, day of atonement, and feast of tabernacles. Prof. Alexander, in loc. It is applied to those festivals, because they were fixed by law to certain periods of the year. This verse is a very impressive repetition of the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 1:13

Isaiah 1:13. Bring no more vain oblations I neither desire, nor will accept of any on these terms. Incense is an abomination to me So far is it from being a sweet savour to me, as you foolishly imagine. The new moons Which were holy to God, and observed with great solemnity; the calling of assemblies At all other solemn times, wherein the people were obliged to meet together. I cannot away with Hebrew, לא אוכל , I cannot endure; it is grievous to me. It is iniquity It is so... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 1:10-31

Religious and moral corruption (1:10-31)No doubt the people thought they were pleasing God by offering sacrifices, attending public worship services, and keeping the special Israelite feasts; but because their everyday lives were full of sin, their religious exercises were hateful to God. No matter how correct the form of worship, God will not accept it unless the people show a corresponding zeal for right behaviour (10-15).The people must turn from their selfishness and treachery, and begin to... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 1:13

oblations. Hebrew. minchah = gift-offering. App-43 . is = itself [is]. assemblies = convocations. Hebrew. mikra'. Reference to Pentateuch ( App-92 ); out of twenty-three occurrences, twenty occur in Pentateuch. Occurs only here, Isaiah 4:5 , and Nehemiah 8:8 (in a later sense "reading"), outside the Pentateuch. Not kahal . See note on Genesis 28:3 ; Genesis 49:6 ; and App-92 . I cannot away with. Hebrew. yakol = to be able. Here = "I am not able [to endure, or put up with]". The Figure... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 1:14

My soul = I (very emph.) Hebrew. nephesh . App-13 . Figure of speech Anthropopatheia . App-6 . read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 1:13

13. oblations—unbloody; "meat (old English sense, not flesh) offerings," that is, of flour, fruits, oil, c. ( :-). Hebrew, mincha. incense—put upon the sacrifices, and burnt on the altar of incense. Type of prayer (Psalms 141:2 Revelation 8:3). new moons—observed as festivals (Numbers 10:10; Numbers 28:11; Numbers 28:14) with sacrifices and blowing of silver trumpets. sabbaths—both the seventh day and the beginning and closing days of the great feasts (Leviticus 23:24-39). away with—bear,... read more