¹⁴ Your New Moon^(A) feasts and your appointed festivals^(B)
    I hate with all my being.^(C)
They have become a burden to me;^(D)
    I am weary^(E) of bearing them.

¹² They have harps and lyres at their banquets,
    pipes^(A) and timbrels^(B) and wine,
but they have no regard^(C) for the deeds of the Lord,
    no respect for the work of his hands.^(D)

¹² The Lord, the Lord Almighty,
    called you on that day^(A)
to weep^(B) and to wail,
    to tear out your hair^(C) and put on sackcloth.^(D)
13 But see, there is joy and revelry,^(E)
    slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep,
    eating of meat and drinking of wine!^(F)
“Let us eat and drink,” you say,
    “for tomorrow we die!”^(G)

⁹ Be stunned and amazed,^(A)
    blind yourselves and be sightless;^(B)
be drunk,^(C) but not from wine,^(D)
    stagger,^(E) but not from beer.

“These people^(A) come near to me with their mouth
    and honor me with their lips,^(B)
    but their hearts are far from me.^(C)
Their worship of me
    is based on merely human rules they have been taught.^[a](D)