Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Bring no more vain oblations - unbloody: "meat (old English sense, not flesh) offerings;" i:e., of flour, fruits, oil, etc. (Leviticus 2:1-13). Hebrew, minchah (H4503).
Incense - put upon the sacrifices, and burnt on the altar of incense. Type of prayer (Psalms 141:2; Revelation 8:3).
The new moons - observed as festivals (Numbers 10:10; Numbers 28:11-14), with sacrifices and blowing of silver trumpets.
Sabbaths - the seventh day and the beginning and closing days of the great feasts (Leviticus 23:24-39).
I cannot away with - bear.
(It is) iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Maurer translates, 'I cannot bear iniquity and the solemn meeting' - i:e., the meeting associated with iniquity; literature, the closing day of the feasts, on which there was an holy convocation: so the great days (Leviticus 23:36; John 7:37) х `ªtsaaraah (H6116), from `aatsar (H6113), to close, or to restrain, namely, from servile work].