Quotes about Detestable

Wicked behavior is detestable to kings, for a throne is established through righteousness.

Acquitting the guilty and condemning the righteous—both are detestable to the LORD.

The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable—how much more so when brought with ill intent!

A foolish scheme is sin, and a mocker is detestable to men.

Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.

Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me—your New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations. I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly.

Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.

And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”

I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but you came and defiled My land, and made My inheritance detestable.

“If you will return, O Israel, return to Me,” declares the LORD. “If you will remove your detestable idols from My sight and no longer waver,

Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields—I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”

Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: ‘Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.’