Isaiah 1:12
When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
KJV
Cum veniretis ante conspectum meum, quis quæsivit hæc de manibus vestris, ut ambularetis in atriis meis ?
Vulgate
οὐδ’ ἂν ἔρχησθε ὀφθῆναί μοι. τίς γὰρ ἐξεζήτησεν ταῦτα ἐκ τῶν χειρῶν ὑμῶν; πατεῖν τὴν αὐλήν μου
LXX
When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to trample my courts?
ASV
כִּ֣י תָבֹ֔אוּ לֵ/רָא֖וֹת פָּנָ֑/י מִי בִקֵּ֥שׁ זֹ֛את מִ/יֶּדְ/כֶ֖ם רְמֹ֥ס חֲצֵרָֽ/י
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
בַקֵּ֥שׁ
bqsh
verb · 225×
בָּ֣א
b'
verb · 2573×
הֶֽן
hn
noun · 190×
וֹ
v
noun · 1620×
זֹּ֔את
z't
pronoun · 604×
יַּ֣רְא
yr'
verb · 1312×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
מִ֣י
my
particle · 420×
פְנֵ֣י
pny
noun · 2111×
תִּרְמֹ֖ס
trms
verb · 19×
Historic Christian voices
7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§2100Outward sacrifice, to be genuine, must be the expression of spiritual sacrifice: "The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit...."17 The prophets of the Old Covenant often denounced sacrifices that were not from the heart or not coupled with love of neighbor.18 Jesus recalls the words of the prophet Hosea: "I desire mercy, and not sacrifice."19 The only perfect sacrifice…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210220.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
1. In what has gone before he had shown that the sacrifices were unavailing for perfect purification, and were a type, and greatly defective. Since then there was this objection to his argument, If they are types, how is it that, after the truth has come, they have not ceased, nor given place, but are still performed? He here accordingly labors at this very point, showing that …
We teach that the true God alone is to be adored and worshipped. This honor we impart to none other, according to the commandment of God: "You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve." Indeed, all the prophets severely censured the people of Israel whenever they worshipped strange gods. And the apostles taught that gold and silver images are not gods, that…
Cross-references
- Eccl 5:1 — Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
- Eccl 5:1 — Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
- Exod 23:17 — Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the LORD God.
- Exod 34:23 — Thrice in the year shall all your menchildren appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel.
- Isa 58:1 — Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.
- Mark 7:8 — For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
- Matt 23:5 — But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
- Mic 6:8 — He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
- Ps 40:6 — Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.