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,
15and call on me when you're in trouble. I will rescue you, and you will thank me.”
16But to the wicked God says, “What's the point of mechanically repeating my laws or making empty promises about obeying the agreement?
17You hate my discipline, and you toss my words away, leaving them behind you.
18When you see people stealing, you admire them; you associate with adulterers.