God Rejects Empty Ritual

Psalms 50:7-15

"Listen, my people, I am speaking: Isra'el, I am testifying against you, I, God, your God.

I am not rebuking you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are always before me.

I have no need for a bull from your farm or for male goats from your pens;

for all forest creatures are mine already, as are the animals on a thousand hills;

I know all the birds in the mountains; whatever moves in the fields is mine.

If I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world is mine, and everything in it.

Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?

Offer thanksgiving as your sacrifice to God, pay your vows to the Most High,

and call on me when you are in trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me."