Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, "Forgive all our sins, And accept that which is good: So we offer like bulls our lips.
"Take with you words ..." Mauchline commented thus: "Do not take with you lambs and rams for sacrificial offerings as you have been wont to do ... but take words."[11]  The cessation of animal sacrifice never occurred until the proclamation of the gospel after Pentecost and the destruction of the temple in A.D. 70.  It is of those later times, the present dispensation of God's grace, that the prophet wrote in these lines. Butler's brilliant and eloquent summary of the meaning of this chapter is as follows: