Isaiah 1:14

Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
moons	חָדְשֵׁיכֶ֤ם cha.de.shei.Khem	H2320	the new moon · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine plural
feasts	וּמוֹעֲדֵיכֶם֙ u.mo.'a.dei.Khem	H4150	properly · conjunction + noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine plural
soul	נַפְשִׁ֔י naf.Shi	H5315	properly · noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix
hateth	שָׂנְאָ֣ה sa.ne.'Ah	H8130	to hate (personally) · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular
trouble	לָטֹ֑רַח la.To.rach	H2960	a burden · preposition + noun, common masculine singular absolute
weary	נִלְאֵ֖יתִי nil.'Ei.ti	H3811	to tire · verb, niphal perfect, 1st person common singular
bear	נְשֹֽׂא ne.So'	H5375	to lift · verb, qal infinitive construct

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Cross-references

Amos 5:21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
Isaiah 43:24 Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve wit…
Isaiah 7:13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
Isaiah 61:8 For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting coven…
Isaiah 29:1 Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.
Amos 2:13 Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves.
Zechariah 11:8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
Malachi 2:17 Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sig…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 1:10-15

Here, I. God calls to them (but calls in vain) to hear his word, Isa 1:10. 1. The title he gives them is very strange; You rulers of Sodom, and people of Gomorrah. This intimates what a righteous thing it would have been with God to make them like Sodom and Gomorrah in respect of ruin (Isa 1:9), because that had made themselves like Sodom and Gomorrah in respect of sin. The men of Sodom were wicked, and sinners before the Lord exceedingly (Gen 13:13), and so were the men of Judah. When the rulers were bad, no wonder the people were so. Vice overpowered virtue, for it had the rulers, the men of figure, on its side; and it out-polled it, for it had the people, the men of number, on its side. T…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 1:14

appointed--the sabbath, passover, pentecost, day of atonement, and feast of tabernacles [HENGSTENBERG]; they alone were fixed to certain times of the year. weary-- (Isa 43:24).

John Gill on Isaiah 1:14

Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth,.... The Targum is, "my Word abhorreth;'' the Messiah, the essential Word. These are the same as before. They are a trouble unto me; as they were kept and observed, either when they should not, or in a manner unbecoming: I am weary to bear them; because of the sins with which they made him to serve, Isaiah 43:24.

John Calvin on Isaiah 1:14

Your new-moons The Prophet adds nothing new to his former doctrine; but with respect to all ceremonies, in which there is no spiritual truth, but only the glare of a false pretense, he declares generally that they are not merely useless but wicked. Hence we ought to observe that we labor to no purpose, if we do not worship God in the right manner, and as God himself enjoins. In all things God delights in truth, but especially in the worship due to his majesty. Besides, not only do we lose our labor, but the worship of God (as we have already said) is perverted; and nothing can be more wicked than this. Now all superstitions are so many corruptions of the worship of God; it follows, therefore…

The Church Fathers

God has here expressed an aversion to certain sabbaths. By calling them "your sabbaths" he means that the sabbaths he rejects are humanity's, and not his. He rejects them because they were celebrated without the fear of God by a people full of sins who love God "with the lip, not the heart."
— Tertullian, AGAINST MARCION 1.

Through this arises the question for us, what sabbath God willed us to keep? For the Scriptures point to an eternal sabbath and a temporal sabbath. For Isaiah the prophet says, "My soul hates your sabbaths," and in another place he says, "My sabbath you have profaned." From which we discern that the temporal sabbath is human and the eternal sabbath is accounted divine.
— Tertullian, AN ANSWER TO THE JEWS 4

(Verse 14.) I will not bear your new moons, and sabbaths, and other feasts: your assemblies are wicked. Every gathering that does not offer spiritual sacrifices, and does not listen to what is sung in the fiftieth psalm: A sacrifice to God is a contrite spirit: a broken and humbled heart God does not despise, is abominable to God. And therefore it connects and says: Your new moons and solemnities. So that it does not call them their own feasts: but those who misuse them. And as the Seventy translated, fasting and idleness: we can say that fasting is accepted by God, because it does not have the idleness of good works. My soul hates it. Anthropomorphically, not that God has a soul; but it speaks with our affection.
— Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah

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Dictionary and topics

Isaiah, The Book of — Consists of prophecies delivered (Isa. 1) in the reign of Uzziah (1-5), (2) of Jotham (6), (3) Ahaz (7-14:28), (4) the first half of Hezekiah’s reign (14:28-35), (5) the second half of Hezekiah’s…
Church Of Israel · Had: Appointed feasts — Had: Appointed feasts
Feast Of The New Moon, The · Mere outward observance of, hateful to God — Mere outward observance of, hateful to God
Feasts, The Anniversary · Called: Appointed feasts — Called: Appointed feasts
Formalism · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Hypocrisy · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Hypocrites · Worship of, not acceptable to God — Worship of, not acceptable to God
Ordinance · INSUFFICIENCY OF, FOR SALVATION — INSUFFICIENCY OF, FOR SALVATION
Sins, National · Defile: National worship — Defile: National worship

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Isaiah 1:14

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 1:10-15

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 1:14

John Gill on Isaiah 1:14

John Calvin on Isaiah 1:14

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Isaiah 1:14

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 1:10-15

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 1:14

John Gill on Isaiah 1:14

John Calvin on Isaiah 1:14

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Isaiah 1:14

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Isaiah 1:14

Rashi on Isaiah 1:13