"Listen, my people, and I will speak; I will testify against you, Israel: I am God, your God. I bring no charges against you concerning your sacrifices or concerning your burnt offerings, which are ever before me."
I will testify against you, Israel
Hebrews 2:4 God also testified to it (this salvation) by signs, wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.
I am God, your God
Exodus 20:2 "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery."
Psalm 48:14 For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide even to the end.
I bring no charges against you
2 Samuel 22:16 "The valleys of the sea were exposed and the foundations of the earth laid bare at the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of breath from his nostrils."
concerning your sacrifices or concerning your burnt offerings
Psalm 40:6 Sacrifice and offering you did not desire--but my ears you have opened--burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require.
Isaiah 1:11 "The multitude of your sacrifices--what are they to me?" says the LORD. "I have more than enough of burnt offerings, of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats."
Hosea 6:6 "For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgement of God rather than burnt offerings."
(parentheses are mine)
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