Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
For thou wilt not delight in sacrifice, and thou wilt not take pleasure in burnt-offering.
New American Standard Bible
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 are not pleased with a burnt offering.
International Standard Version
Indeed, you do not delight in sacrifices, or I would give them, nor do you desire burnt offerings.
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.
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.
Themes
Formalism » The insufficiency of
Homicide » David's repentance for, and confession of, the murder of uriah
Offerings » Useless when not accompanied by genuine piety
Offerings » Withheld see offerings; withheld » Insufficient to secure salvation
Offerings » Many offences under the law, beyond the efficacy of
Prayer » Penitential » Of david
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 51:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Create In Me A Clean Heart, O God
15 O Jehovah, thou wilt open my lips, and my mouth shall announce thy praise. 16 For thou wilt not delight in sacrifice, and thou wilt not take pleasure in burnt-offering. 17 The sacrifices of God a spirit being broken: a heart being broken and crushed, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 40:6
Sacrifice and a gift thou didst not delight in; the ears thou didst pierce to me: burnt-offering and sin thou didst not ask.
Exodus 21:14
And if a man shall act proudly against his friend to kill him with craftiness, from mine altar shalt thou take him to die.
Numbers 15:27
And if one soul shall sin in. error, and he brought a she goat the daughter of a goat, for sin.
Numbers 15:30-31
And the soul which shall do with a high hand, from the native, and from the stranger, it reproaches Jehovah, and that soul was cut off from the midst of its people.
Numbers 35:31
Ye shall not take expiation for the soul of a slayer, he who was guilty to die, for dying, he shall die.
Deuteronomy 22:22
When a man shall be found lying with the woman mistress of a husband, and they died, also they two, the man lying with the woman, and the woman: and thou didst put away evil from Israel.
1 Samuel 15:22
And Samuel will say, Was it pleasing to Jehovah in burnt-offerings and sacrifices as to hear to the voice of Jehovah? Behold, to hear, above a good sacrifice, and to hearken, above the fat of rams.
Psalm 50:8
Not for thy sacrifices will I reprove thee and for thy burnt-offerings, being always before me.
Psalm 51:6
Behold, thou didst delight in truth in the reins, and in bidden things thou wilt cause me to know wisdom.
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the unjust an abomination of Jehovah: and the prayer of the upright his acceptance.
Proverbs 21:27
The sacrifice of the unjust is an abomination, for also he will bring it in mischief.
Isaiah 1:11-15
For what to me the multitude of your sacrifices? Jehovah will say: I was filled with the burnt-offerings of rams and the fat of fatlings; and I delighted not in the blood of bullocks, and of he lambs and of he goats.
Jeremiah 7:22-23
for I spake not to your fathers, and I commanded them not in the day of bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt, concerning my word of burnt-offering and sacrifice:
Jeremiah 7:27
And speak thou to them all these words, and they will not hear to thee: and call to them, and they will not answer.
Hosea 6:6
For I delighted in mercy and not sacrifice; the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.
Amos 5:21-23
I hated, I rejected your festivals, and I will not smell in your assemblies.
Hebrews 10:5-6
Wherefore coming into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering then wouldest not, but a body hast thou adjusted to me: