God Rejects Empty Ritual

Psalms 50:7-15

Heare, O my people, and I wil speake: heare, O Israel, and I wil testifie vnto thee: for I am God, euen thy God.

I wil not reproue thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt offerings, that haue not bene continually before me.

I will take no bullocke out of thine house, nor goates out of thy foldes.

For all the beastes of the forest are mine, and the beastes on a thousand mountaines.

I knowe all the foules on the mountaines: and the wilde beastes of the fielde are mine.

If I bee hungry, I will not tell thee: for the world is mine, and all that therein is.

Will I eate the flesh of bulles? or drinke the blood of goates?

Offer vnto God praise, and pay thy vowes vnto the most High,

And call vpon me in the day of trouble: so will I deliuer thee, and thou shalt glorifie me.