7“My people, listen to what I have to say. I am bringing charges against you, Israel. I am God, your God!
8I'm not complaining about your sacrifices or burnt offerings that you offer all the time.
9I do not require bulls from your barns or goats from your pens,
10for I own all the animals of the forest, and the cattle on a thousand hills belong to me.
11I know every bird of the mountains; all living things in the fields are mine.
12If I were hungry, I wouldn't tell you, for the earth and everything in it are mine.
13Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?
14Give an offering of thanks to God; keep the promises you made to the Most High,