Isaiah 1:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

To what purpose? they are vain and useless, being neither accepted by me, nor beneficial to you. Unto me, who am a Spirit, and therefore cannot be satisfied with such carnal oblations, but expect to be worshipped in spirit and truth, and to have your hearts and lives, as well as, your bodies and sacrifices, presented unto me. I am full of the burnt-offerings; I am glutted with them, and therefore loathe them. The blood; he mentions the fat and blood, because these were in a peculiar manner reserved for God, Leviticus 3:15,16 Leviticus 17:11, to intimate that even the best of their sacrifices were rejected by him.

Isaiah 1:11

11 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.e