“If I Were Hungry”

When food, whether meat or vegetable, was offered in sacrifice, there was a natural suggestion that the worshiper was providing sustenance for the god or gods being worshiped. In the Old Testament sacrifices were required by Israel’s God. Yet the Psalms reveal a sharp polemic against any such misinterpretation of the sacrifices. Yahweh declares, “If I was hungry, I would not tell you.” {If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.  Psalm 50:12}