In Isaiah, chapter one, verse eleven, “To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? Saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.” Isaiah condemns the people for participating in evil deeds and injustices, while continuing to bring offerings and sacrifices to God, and to pray to and worship. “Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil; Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow,” as in verses sixteen through seventeen, of Isaiah. Worship and praise become an abomination to God if our hearts are not sincerely devoted to Him and to His holy ways, as in Isaiah sixty-six, verse three, Jeremiah seven, verses twenty-one to twenty-six, Hosea six, verse six, Amos five, verses twenty-one to twenty-four, Micah six, verses six to eight, respectively.
The response of the theme verse continues in verses twelve through thirteen, “When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.” God does not condone this kind of behavior from the saints of God. Doing something contrary to His Word is an abomination. Arrogance is related to pride, and it should not abide with the godly ones. The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts, as in Psalms ten, verse four.