^{7 Ref} "Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

^{8 Ref} I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

^{9 Ref} I have no need for a bull from your stall, Nor male goats from your pens.

^{10 Ref} For every animal of the forest is mine, And the cattle on a thousand hills.

^{11 Ref} I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.

^{12 Ref} If I were hungry, I would not tell you, For the world is mine, and all that is in it.

¹³ Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?