Proper Worship

66 Thus says Yahweh:

“Heaven is my throne,

and the earth is the footstool for my feet.

Where is this house that you would build for me?

And where is this resting place for me?

2 And my hand has made all these things,

and all these ⌊came to be⌋,”a

⌊declares⌋b Yahweh, “butc I look to this one:

to the humble and the contrite of spirit

and the one frightened at my word.

3 The one who slaughters a bull strikes a man;

the one who slaughters a lamb for sacrifice breaks the neck of a dog.

The one who offers an offering, the blood of swine;

the one who offers frankincense blesses an idol.

Indeed, they themselves have chosen their ways,

and their soul delights in their abhorrence.

4 Indeed, I myself I will choose their ill treatment,

and I will bring them objects of their dread,

because I called, and ⌊no one answered⌋;d

I spoke and they did not listen,

bute they did the evil in my eyes,

and they chose that in which I do not delight.”