Bible Verses About National Sins: National worship rejected on account of

Hear what ADONAI says, you rulers of S'dom! Listen to God's Torah, you people of 'Amora!

"Why are all those sacrifices offered to me?" asks ADONAI. "I'm fed up with burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fattened animals! I get no pleasure from the blood of bulls, lambs and goats!

Yes, you come to appear in my presence; but who asked you to do this, to trample through my courtyards?

Stop bringing worthless grain offerings! They are like disgusting incense to me! Rosh-Hodesh, Shabbat, calling convocations - I can't stand evil together with your assemblies!

Everything in me hates your Rosh-Hodesh and your festivals; they are a burden to me - I'm tired of putting up with them!

Hear, oh earth! I am going to bring disaster on this people; it is the consequence of their own way of thinking; for they pay no attention to my words; and as for my Torah, they reject it.

What do I care about incense from Sh'va or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are unacceptable, your sacrifices don't please me."

First you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, offer to Ba'al and go after other gods that you haven't known.

Then you come and stand before me in this house that bears my name and say, 'We are saved' - so that you can go on doing these abominations!

Do you regard this house, which bears my name, as a cave for bandits? I can see for myself what's going on," says ADONAI.

"Go to the place in Shiloh that used to be mine, that used to bear my name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of my people Isra'el.

I spoke to you again and again, but you wouldn't listen. I called you, but you wouldn't answer. Now," says ADONAI, "because you have done all these things,

I will do to the house that bears my name, on which you rely, and to the place I gave you and your ancestors, what I did to Shiloh;