8 I do not reprove you because of your sacrifices,

Nor because of your whole burnt offerings that are constantly before me.+

 9 I do not need to take a bull from your house,

Nor goats* from your pens.+

10 For every wild animal of the forest is mine,+

Even the beasts upon a thousand mountains.

11 I know every bird of the mountains;+

The countless animals of the field are mine.

12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you,

For the productive land and everything in it is mine.+

13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls

And drink the blood of goats?+

14 Offer thanksgiving as your sacrifice to God,+

And pay your vows to the Most High;+

15 Call on me in the time of distress.+