^{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?

^{14 Ref} Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.

^{15 Ref} Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."

^{16 Ref} But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, That you have taken my covenant on your lips,

^{17 Ref} Seeing you hate instruction, And throw my words behind you?

^{18 Ref} When you saw a thief, you consented with him, And have participated with adulterers.