Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth, &c.] The Targum is,
``my Word abhorreth;''
the Messiah, the essential Word. These are the same as before. They are a trouble unto me; as they were kept and observed, either when they should not, or in a manner unbecoming: I am weary to bear [them]; because of the sins with which they made him to serve, ( Isaiah 43:24 ) .
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When you come to appear before me, who asked this from your hand? Trample my courts no more;
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bringing offerings is futile; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and sabbath and calling of convocation— I cannot endure solemn assemblies with iniquity.
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Your new moons and your appointed festivals my soul hates; they have become a burden to me, I am weary of bearing them.
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When you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.
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Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil,
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