Their towns and their sanctuaries He would destroy, because He took no pleasure in their sacrificial worship. מִקְדָּשִׁים are the holy things of the worship of Jehovah, the tabernacle and temple, with their altars and the rest of their holy furniture, as in Ps. 68:36; Psa 74:7. נִיחֹחַ רֵיחַ (Lev 1:9) is the odour of the sacrifice; and רִיחַ, to smell, an anthropomorphic designation of divine satisfaction (cf. Amo 5:21; Isa 11:3).