Contrasted with the judgment that the Lord loves is robbery that He hates. Here it stands for all types of wrongdoing. The Hebrew of the Old Testament was originally written in consonants only. Vowels were not put in until centuries after Christ. This gives translators problems because words with identical consonants can change meaning with different vowels—just like in English. That is the case here with the phrase burnt offering; with different vowels it can also be translated “iniquity,” as it