Psa 50:13, Jer 6:20, Amo 5:22, Mic 6:7 | Geneva | STEP | {k} Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? (k) Though man's life for the infirmity of it has need of food, yet God whose life quickens all the world, has no need of such means.

Psalms 50:13

{k} Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

(k) Though man's life for the infirmity of it has need of food, yet God whose life quickens all the world, has no need of such means.

Jeremiah 6:20

To what purpose cometh there to me {r} incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a distant country? your burnt offerings [are] not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet to me.

(r) Read Isa 1:11, Am 5:21.

Amos 5:22

Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, {l} I will not accept [them]: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.

(l) Because you have corrupted my true service, and remain obstinate in your vices; Isa 1:11, Jer 6:10.

Micah 6:7

Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, [or] with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my {f} firstborn [for] my transgression, the fruit of my body [for] the sin of my soul?

(f) There is nothing so dear to man, but the hypocrites will offer it to God, if they think by this to avoid his anger. But they will never by brought to mortify their own affections, and to give themselves willingly to serve God as he commands.