Study Desk

This is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel says: "Add your ^(C1)burnt offerings to your sacrifices and ^(C2)eat flesh.

"For I did not ^(C1)speak to your fathers, or command them on the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.

"But this is ^(F1)what I commanded them, saying, '^(C1)Obey My voice, and ^(C2)I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you shall walk ^(F2)entirely in the way which I command you, so that it may ^(C3)go well for you.'

"Yet they ^(C1)did not obey or incline their ear, but walked by their own advice and in the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and they ^(F1)(C2)went backward and not forward.

"Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have ^(C1)sent you all My servants the prophets, sending them daily, again and again.

"Yet they did not listen to Me or incline their ear, but ^(C1)stiffened their neck; they ^(C2)did more evil than their fathers.