Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: "Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat meat.

"But this is what I commanded them, saying, 'Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.'

"With their flocks and herds They shall go to seek the LORD, But they will not find [Him;] He has withdrawn Himself from them.

They shall not offer wine [offerings] to the LORD, Nor shall their sacrifices be pleasing to Him. [It shall be] like bread of mourners to them; All who eat it shall be defiled. For their bread [shall be] for their [own] life; It shall not come into the house of the LORD.

Though Gilead [has] idols -- Surely they are vanity -- Though they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal, Indeed their altars [shall be] heaps in the furrows of the field.

Then Samuel said: "Has the LORD [as great] delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, [And] to heed than the fat of rams.

The sacrifice of the wicked [is] an abomination; How much more [when] he brings it with wicked intent!

"To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices to Me?" Says the LORD. "I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams And the fat of fed cattle. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, Or of lambs or goats.

Thus says the LORD to this people: "Thus they have loved to wander; They have not restrained their feet. Therefore the LORD does not accept them; He will remember their iniquity now, And punish their sins."

Though you offer Me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept [them,] Nor will I regard your fattened peace offerings.

Therefore when you come together in one place, it is not to eat the Lord's Supper.

For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

They are deeply corrupted, As in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity; He will punish their sins.

" You shall have no other gods before Me.

"Now therefore, go, lead the people to [the place] of which I have spoken to you. Behold, My Angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I visit for punishment, I will visit punishment upon them for their sin."

The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob: "Surely I will never forget any of their works.

Now the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. And great Babylon was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath.

They return, [but] not to the Most High; They are like a treacherous bow. Their princes shall fall by the sword For the cursings of their tongue. This [shall be] their derision in the land of Egypt.

They shall not dwell in the LORD's land, But Ephraim shall return to Egypt, And shall eat unclean [things] in Assyria.

For indeed they are gone because of destruction. Egypt shall gather them up; Memphis shall bury them. Nettles shall possess their valuables of silver; Thorns [shall be] in their tents.

" He shall not return to the land of Egypt; But the Assyrian shall be his king, Because they refused to repent.

"And the LORD will take you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said to you, 'You shall never see it again.' And there you shall be offered for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy [you."]