Isaiah 1:14 - Exposition

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 1:12 ).