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I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices
or your burnt offerings, which are ever before me.
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I have no need of a bull from your stall
or of goats from your pens,
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for every animal of the forest is mine,
and the cattle on a thousand hills.
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I know every bird in the mountains,
and the creatures of the field are mine.
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If I were hungry I would not tell you,
for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
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Do I eat the flesh of bulls
or drink the blood of goats?
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Sacrifice thank offerings to God,
fulfill your vows to the Most High,
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and call upon me in the day of trouble;
I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
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But to the wicked, God says:
“What right have you to recite my laws
or take my covenant on your lips?
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You hate my instruction
and cast my words behind you.