Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

Indeed, you do not delight in sacrifices, or I would give them, nor do you desire burnt offerings.

New American Standard Bible

For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it;
You are not pleased with burnt offering.

King James Version

For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.

Holman Bible

You do not want a sacrifice, or I would give it;
You are not pleased with a burnt offering.

A Conservative Version

For thou delight not in sacrifice, else I would give it. Thou have no pleasure in burnt-offering.

American Standard Version

For thou delightest not in sacrifice; else would I give it: Thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering.

Amplified


For You do not delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it;
You are not pleased with burnt offering.

Bible in Basic English

You have no desire for an offering or I would give it; you have no delight in burned offerings.

Darby Translation

For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering.

Julia Smith Translation

For thou wilt not delight in sacrifice, and thou wilt not take pleasure in burnt-offering.

King James 2000

For you desire not sacrifice; else would I give it: you delight not in burnt offering.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For you do not delight [in] sacrifice or I would give [it]. [With] a burnt offering you are not pleased.

Modern King James verseion

For You do not desire sacrifice; or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For if thou hadst pleasure in sacrifice, I would give it thee: but thou delightest not in burnt-offerings.

NET Bible

Certainly you do not want a sacrifice, or else I would offer it; you do not desire a burnt sacrifice.

New Heart English Bible

For you do not delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

The Emphasized Bible

For thou wilt not desire sacrifice - that I should give it, Ascending-offering, will not please:

Webster

For thou desirest not sacrifice: else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt-offering.

World English Bible

For you don't delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

Youngs Literal Translation

For Thou desirest not sacrifice, or I give it, Burnt-offering Thou acceptest not.

References

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Hastings

Joy

Watsons

Context Readings

Create In Me A Clean Heart, O God

15 Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise. 16 Indeed, you do not delight in sacrifices, or I would give them, nor do you desire burnt offerings. 17 True sacrifice to God is a broken spirit. A broken and chastened heart, God, you will not despise.


Cross References

Psalm 40:6

You take no delight in sacrifices and offerings you have prepared my ears to listen you require no burnt offerings or sacrifices for sin.

Exodus 21:14

If a man acts deliberately against his neighbor, to kill him by treachery, you are to take him to die even if he's at my altar.

Numbers 15:27

"Now when one person sins inadvertently, then he is to bring a one year old female goat for a sin offering.

Numbers 15:30-31

"But if some person acts with a high hand, whether a native-born or a resident alien, he blasphemes God, and that person is to be eliminated from among his people.

Numbers 35:31

You are to receive no ransom for the life of a killer who is guilty of murder; instead, he is to die.

Deuteronomy 22:22

"If a man is caught having sexual relations with a married woman, then both of them must die the man who had sex with the woman and the woman herself so that this evil will be removed from Israel.

1 Samuel 15:22

Samuel said, "Does the LORD delight as much in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the LORD? Surely, to obey is better than sacrifice, to pay attention is better than the fat of rams.

Psalm 50:8

I do not rebuke you because of your sacrifices; indeed, your burnt offerings are continuously before me.

Psalm 51:6

Indeed, you are pleased with truth in the inner person, and you will teach me wisdom in my innermost parts.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Proverbs 21:27

What the wicked person sacrifices is detestable how much more when he offers it with vile motives!

Isaiah 1:11-15

"How do your voluminous sacrifices benefit me?" the LORD is asking. "I've had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts. I don't enjoy the blood of bulls, lambs, or goats.

Jeremiah 7:22-23

"Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat the meat. Indeed, when I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I didn't speak or command them about burnt offering and sacrifice,

Jeremiah 7:27

"You will tell them all these things, but they won't listen to you. You will call out to them, but they won't answer you.

Hosea 6:6

For it is love that I seek, and not sacrifice; knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Amos 5:21-23

"I hate I despise your festival days, and your solemn convocations stink.

Hebrews 10:5-6

For this reason, the Scriptures say, when the Messiah was about to come into the world: "You did not want sacrifices and offerings, but you prepared a body for me.

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