Revised Standard Version RSV
New International Version NIV
7 "Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
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“Listen, my people, and I will speak; I will testify against you, Israel: I am God, your God.
8 I do not reprove you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are continually before me.
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I bring no charges against you concerning your sacrifices or concerning your burnt offerings, which are ever before me.
9 I will accept no bull from your house, nor he-goat from your folds.
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I have no need of a bull from your stall or of goats from your pens,
10 For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
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for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
11 I know all the birds of the air, and all that moves in the field is mine.
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I know every bird in the mountains, and the insects in the fields are mine.
12 "If I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world and all that is in it is mine.
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If I were hungry I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
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Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?
14 Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High;
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“Sacrifice thank offerings to God, fulfill your vows to the Most High,
15 and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me."
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and call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
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