Isaiah 1:14 (GNV)

Passage

My soule hateth your newe moones and your appointed feastes: they are a burden vnto me: I am weary to beare them.

Nearby Context

Isaiah 1:12 When ye come to appeare before me, who required this of your hands to tread in my courts?

Isaiah 1:13 Bring no more oblations, in vaine: incense is an abomination vnto me: I can not suffer your newe moones, nor Sabbaths, nor solemne dayes (it is iniquitie) nor solemne assemblies.

Isaiah 1:14 My soule hateth your newe moones and your appointed feastes: they are a burden vnto me: I am weary to beare them.

Isaiah 1:15 And when you shall stretch out your hands, I wil hide mine eyes from you: and though ye make many prayers, I wil not heare: for your hands are full of blood.

Isaiah 1:16 Wash you, make you cleane: take away the euill of your workes from before mine eyes: cease to doe euill.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "soule", "hateth", "newe", "moones", "appointed", "feastes", "burden", and "vnto". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "soule" and "hateth", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 13's "Bring no more oblations in vaine incense..." into verse 15's "And when you shall stretch out your...", so "soule" and "hateth" belong inside that flow. In Isaiah context, the local focus is the Holy One of Israel, judgment and restoration, the servant of the LORD, and Zion's hope.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "soule" and "hateth" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.