Isaiah 1:12
Good News Translation
Who asked you to bring me all this when you come to worship me? Who asked you to do all this tramping around in my Temple?

New Revised Standard Version
When you come to appear before me, who asked this from your hand? Trample my courts no more;

Contemporary English Version
"Who asked you to bring all this when you come to worship me? Stay out of my temple!

New American Bible
When you come to appear before me, who asks these things of you?

Douay-Rheims Bible
When you came to appear before me, who required these things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts?

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When you came to appear before me, who required these things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts?

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Isaiah 58:1,2 Cry, cease not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their wicked doings, and the house of Jacob their sins. . . .

Exodus 23:17 Thrice a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God.

Exodus 34:23 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear in the sight of the almighty Lord the God of Israel.

Deuteronomy 16:16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. No one shall appear with his hands empty before the Lord:

Ecclesiastes 5:1 Keep thy foot, when thou goest into the house of God, and draw nigh to hear. For much better is obedience, than the victims of fools, who know not what evil they do.

Matthew 23:5 And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad and enlarge their fringes.

appear.

Psalm 40:6 Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire; but thou hast pierced ears for me. Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not require:

Micah 6:8 I will shew thee, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requireth of thee: Verily to do judgment, and to love mercy, and to walk solicitous with thy God.

Context
Meaningless Offerings
11To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats. 12When you came to appear before me, who required these things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts?13Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination to me. The new moons, and the sabbaths and other festivals I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked.…
Cross References
Exodus 23:17
Thrice a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God.

Ecclesiastes 5:1
Keep thy foot, when thou goest into the house of God, and draw nigh to hear. For much better is obedience, than the victims of fools, who know not what evil they do.

Zechariah 7:5
Speak to all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying: When you fasted, and mourned in the fifth and the seventh month for these seventy years: did you keep a fast unto me?

Isaiah 1:11
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