Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “’This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Go ahead, add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves! New Living Translation This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Take your burnt offerings and your other sacrifices and eat them yourselves! English Standard Version Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh. Berean Standard Bible This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves! King James Bible Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. New King James Version Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat. New American Standard Bible This is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel says: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh. NASB 1995 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh. NASB 1977 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh. Legacy Standard Bible Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh. Amplified Bible Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat the meat. Christian Standard Bible This is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices, and eat the meat yourselves, Holman Christian Standard Bible This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices, and eat the meat yourselves, American Standard Version Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat ye flesh. Contemporary English Version The LORD told me to say to the people of Judah: I am the LORD All-Powerful, the God of Israel, but I won't accept sacrifices from you. So don't even bother bringing them to me. You might as well just cook the meat for yourselves. English Revised Version Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat ye flesh. GOD'S WORD® Translation "This is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the meat. Good News Translation "My people, some sacrifices you burn completely on the altar, and some you are permitted to eat. But what I, the LORD, say is that you might as well eat them all. International Standard Version This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat the meat. Majority Standard Bible This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves! NET Bible The LORD said to the people of Judah, "The LORD God of Israel who rules over all says: 'You might as well go ahead and add the meat of your burnt offerings to that of the other sacrifices and eat it, too! New Heart English Bible Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat. Webster's Bible Translation Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt-offerings to your sacrifices, and eat flesh. World English Bible Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionThus said YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel: “Add your burnt-offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh. Young's Literal Translation Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Your burnt-offerings add to your sacrifices, And eat ye flesh. Smith's Literal Translation Thus said Jehovah of armies, God of Israel; Add your burnt-offerings upon your sacrifices and eat flesh. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleThus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat ye the flesh. Catholic Public Domain Version Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Add your holocausts to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh. New American Bible Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Heap your burnt offerings upon your sacrifices; eat up the meat! New Revised Standard Version Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleThus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat which I did not command your fathers to eat. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Thus says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts, God of Israel: “Add their burnt offerings to their sacrifices and eat meat which I did not speak to their fathers OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat ye flesh. Brenton Septuagint Translation Thus saith the Lord, Gather your whole-burnt-offerings with your meat-offerings, and eat flesh. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Judah's Idolatry Persists…20Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished. 21This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves! 22For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices,… Cross References Isaiah 1:11-14 “What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. / When you come to appear before Me, who has required this of you—this trampling of My courts? / Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me. New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations—I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly. ... Amos 5:21-24 “I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies. / Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard. / Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. ... Hosea 6:6 For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings. Psalm 50:8-13 I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me. / I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens, / for every beast of the forest is Mine—the cattle on a thousand hills. ... Micah 6:6-8 With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves? / Would the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I present my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? / He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God? 1 Samuel 15:22 But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams. Matthew 9:13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” Mark 12:33 and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself. This is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.” Hebrews 10:5-10 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You prepared for Me. / In burnt offerings and sin offerings You took no delight. / Then I said, ‘Here I am, it is written about Me in the scroll: I have come to do Your will, O God.’” ... Matthew 12:7 If only you had known the meaning of ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent. Isaiah 66:3 Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever presents a grain offering is like one who offers pig’s blood; whoever offers frankincense is like one who blesses an idol. Indeed, they have chosen their own ways and delighted in their abominations. Psalm 40:6-8 Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require. / Then I said, “Here I am, I have come—it is written about me in the scroll: / I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.” Proverbs 21:3 To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice. Romans 12:1 Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. 1 Corinthians 13:3 If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing. Treasury of Scripture Thus said the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat flesh. Put. Jeremiah 6:20 To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me. Isaiah 1:11-15 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats… Hosea 8:13 They sacrifice flesh for the sacrifices of mine offerings, and eat it; but the LORD accepteth them not; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins: they shall return to Egypt. Jump to Previous Add Ahead Almighty Armies Beasts Burned Burnt Burnt-Offerings Eat Flesh Food Hosts Israel Meat Offerings Sacrifices WordsJump to Next Add Ahead Almighty Armies Beasts Burned Burnt Burnt-Offerings Eat Flesh Food Hosts Israel Meat Offerings Sacrifices WordsJeremiah 7 1. Jeremiah is sent to call to true repentance, to prevent the Jews' captivity.8. He rejects their vain confidence, 12. by the example of Shiloh. 17. He threatens them for their idolatry. 21. He rejects the sacrifices of the disobedient. 29. He exhorts to mourn for their abominations in Tophet; 32. and the judgments for the same. This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says The phrase "LORD of Hosts" is a translation of the Hebrew "Yahweh Sabaoth," which emphasizes God's supreme command over the heavenly armies and His sovereign power over all creation. This title underscores God's authority and His ability to execute judgment or deliverance. The "God of Israel" highlights the covenant relationship between God and His chosen people, Israel. It serves as a reminder of the unique bond and the expectations that come with it. Historically, this phrase would resonate deeply with the Israelites, reminding them of their identity and the divine authority they are accountable to. Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves! Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew This is whatכֹּ֥ה (kōh) Adverb Strong's 3541: Like this, thus, here, now the LORD יְהוָ֥ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel of Hosts, צְבָא֖וֹת (ṣə·ḇā·’ō·wṯ) Noun - common plural Strong's 6635: A mass of persons, reg, organized for, war, a campaign the God אֱלֹהֵ֣י (’ĕ·lō·hê) Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative of Israel, יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל (yiś·rā·’êl) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc says: אָמַ֛ר (’ā·mar) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 559: To utter, say ‘Add your burnt offerings עֹלוֹתֵיכֶ֛ם (‘ō·lō·w·ṯê·ḵem) Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 5930: Whole burnt offering to עַל־ (‘al-) Preposition Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against your other sacrifices זִבְחֵיכֶ֖ם (ziḇ·ḥê·ḵem) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural Strong's 2077: A slaughter, the flesh of an animal, a sacrifice and eat וְאִכְל֥וּ (wə·’iḵ·lū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural Strong's 398: To eat the meat yourselves! בָשָֽׂר׃ (ḇā·śār) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man Links Jeremiah 7:21 NIVJeremiah 7:21 NLT Jeremiah 7:21 ESV Jeremiah 7:21 NASB Jeremiah 7:21 KJV Jeremiah 7:21 BibleApps.com Jeremiah 7:21 Biblia Paralela Jeremiah 7:21 Chinese Bible Jeremiah 7:21 French Bible Jeremiah 7:21 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Jeremiah 7:21 Thus says Yahweh of Armies the God (Jer.) |
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