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I don`t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
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I have no need for a bull from your stall, Nor male goats from your pens.
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For every animal of the forest is mine, And the cattle on a thousand hills.
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I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are 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.
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Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?
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Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.
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Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."
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But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, That you have taken my covenant on your lips,
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Seeing you hate instruction, And throw my words behind you?