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.
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? God does not here absolutely disparage sacrifice, which is as old and universal as sin (Genesis 3:21; Genesis 4:4), and sin is almost as old as the world; but sacrifice unaccompanied with obedience of heart and life (1 Samuel 15:22; Ps. 1: 9-13; Psalms 51:16-19; Hosea 6:6). Positive precepts are only means; moral obedience is the end. A foreshadowing of the Gospel when the One real sacrifice was to supersede all the shadowy ones, and "bring in everlasting righteousness" (Psalms 40:6-7; Daniel 9:24-27; Hebrews 10:1-14).
I am full - to satiety; weary of the burnt offerings-burnt whole, except the blood, which was sprinkled about the altar.
The fat - not to be eaten by man, but burnt on the altar (Leviticus 3:4-5; Leviticus 3:11; Leviticus 3:17).