Isaiah 1:10-11

10, 11. The appeal, continued from Isaiah 1:10-20, rather supposes the prophet to observe that the people are conscious of their delinquencies, and that to make up for them, they make an extravagant show of ceremonial devotion. Hence this abrupt chiding.

Ye rulers of Sodom… Gomorrah The prophet had already said, that but for God’s mercy the nation would have been in condition like to those vile cities utterly destroyed; now he says, they are positively like to them in character.

To what purpose Denoting unacceptableness and valuelessness, because of the insincerity of the offerers.

I am full Have had enough of them.

Burnt offerings of rams Rams, bullocks, lambs, goats, were of-feted on festivals of new moon, passover, feast of weeks, feast of trumpets, day of atonement, and feast of tabernacles, the first three as “burnt offerings,” (Numbers 28:13; Numbers 28:24,) the last as a sin offering. Numbers 28:15; Numbers 28:22.

Moses instituted Jehovah-worship on the new moon to extinguish heathen superstitions on that occasion among his people. The feast of the new moon was the moon of Tisri, our October, the opening of the civil year, announced by the blowing of silver trumpets and other ceremonies.