7. “Hear, O My people, and I will speak,O Israel, and I will testify against you;I am God, even your God.
8. I will not reprove you for your sacrificesor for your burnt offerings that are continually before Me.
9. I will take no young bull out of your house,nor male goats out of your folds.
10. For every wild animal of the forest is Mine,and the cattle on a thousand hills.
11. I know every bird of the mountains,and the creatures that move in the field are Mine.
12. If I were hungry, I would not tell you;for the world is Mine, and all its fullness.
13. Will I eat the flesh of bulls,or drink the blood of goats?
14. Sacrifice a thank offering to God,and pay your vows to the Most High,
15. and call on Me in the day of trouble;I will deliver you, and you will glorifyMe.”
16. But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to declare My statutes,or take My covenant in your mouth?