Religion

Isaiah 1:12: Away with your oblations vain

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 9 (1870)

Religion

Away with your oblations vain,
Who only with your lips draw near,
Trample My courts, My house profane,
And loathsome in My sight appear:
Ye make the outside fair and clean;
Ye come to see, and to be seen!

Your means (of sin, instead) of grace,
Your feasts and festivals impure,
Your holy, bacchanalian days
My soul is weary to endure.
Your sabbaths, and assemblies gay.
Who mock Me, while they seem to pray.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Isaiah 1:12: Away with your oblations vain.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3378/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Isaiah 1:12: Away with your oblations vain.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3378/.

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