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Isaiah 61:8
For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Amos 5:21
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

I am weary

Isaiah 43:24
Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.

Amos 2:13
Behold, I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressedthat is full of sheaves.

Zechariah 11:8
Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.

They have become a burden to Me;
The rituals, once pleasing to God when performed with a sincere heart, had become burdensome due to the people's insincerity and sinfulness. This indicates that God is not interested in ritual for ritual's sake but desires a relationship with His people characterized by justice, mercy, and humility (Micah 6:8). The burden here suggests that God is wearied by the people's failure to live according to His covenant, despite their outward religious observance. This sentiment is echoed in other prophetic writings, such asAmos 5:21-24, where God rejects the festivals and offerings of the Israelites because of their injustice and unrighteousness.

I am weary of bearing them.
God's weariness signifies His patience being tested by the continuous disobedience and superficial worship of His people. This weariness is not due to a lack of power or ability but is a reflection of His righteous indignation towards sin and hypocrisy. The language used here anthropomorphizes God to convey His deep displeasure and the relational aspect of His covenant with Israel. This weariness is a call to repentance, urging the people to return to genuine worship and obedience. It also foreshadows the ultimate solution to sin and hypocrisy through Jesus Christ, who fulfills the law and the prophets (Matthew 5:17) and offers a new covenant based on His sacrificial love and grace (Hebrews 8:6-13).

• “I hate” (Isaiah 1:14) reveals God’s intense personal revulsion toward what Israel is doing.

• Scripture consistently shows that the LORD’s holiness cannot tolerate hypocrisy (Proverbs 6:16–19;Revelation 2:6).

• This hatred is not capricious; it is righteous anger against sin that masquerades as worship (Psalm 5:4–6).

• God’s heart remains love, yet love demands truth. Counterfeit devotion provokes divine hatred because it deceives people into thinking they are right with Him when they are not (Matthew 15:7–9).

• New Moon celebrations were monthly worship gatherings commanded in the Law (Numbers 10:10;Psalm 81:3).

• By calling them “your” New Moons, God distances Himself from what once was His ordinance.

• The external rite had become detached from internal obedience (1 Samuel 15:22).

• True worshipers today must guard against empty observance—any routine, even a church service, can become “yours” rather than the LORD’s if the heart drifts (John 4:23–24).

• Annual feasts—Passover, Pentecost, Tabernacles, and others (Leviticus 23)—were designed to rehearse redemption, gratitude, and dependence.

• Israel still gathered, sacrificed, and sang, yet their lives were riddled with injustice (Isaiah 1:17, 23).

• God rejects the form when the substance is missing (Amos 5:21–24).

• The warning stands: religious calendars cannot substitute for surrendered hearts (Colossians 2:16–17 when misapplied).

• What was once a pleasing aroma (Exodus 29:18) now weighs on the LORD like a load of insincere words and ritual smoke.

• The transformation from delight to burden underscores how unrepentant sin contaminates everything it touches (Malachi 1:10).

• God desires mercy over sacrifice (Hosea 6:6); when mercy is absent, the ritual turns into oppression—first for people, then for God who witnesses it.

• “Weary” speaks of divine longsuffering stretched to its limit (Psalm 95:10;Jeremiah 15:6).

• God’s patience is vast, but not infinite toward persistent rebellion (Romans 2:4–5).

• When the LORD grows weary, judgment follows—seen shortly afterward in Israel’s exile (2 Kings 17:13–18).

• The New Testament echoes the same principle: profession without obedience invites discipline (James 1:22;Revelation 3:16).

Isaiah 1:14 shows the LORD’s holy indignation when worship is divorced from obedience. Festivals He once ordained have become “yours,” exposing how unconfessed sin corrupts even good traditions. God hates hypocrisy, distances Himself from empty ritual, and finally grows weary of sustaining it. Genuine worship must unite outward practice with an inward, repentant heart, or else what was meant to honor God becomes a burden He refuses to bear.

My soul.--The words are in one sense anthropomorphic. With man the "soul" expresses the full intensity of life and consciousness, and so, in the language of the prophets, it does with God.