Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Fausets

Hastings

Joy

Watsons

Context Readings

Create In Me A Clean Heart, O God

15 O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will proclaim your praise. 16 For you do not delight [in] sacrifice or I would give [it]. [With] a burnt offering you are not pleased. 17 The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit; A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.


Cross References

Psalm 40:6

A sacrifice and offering you do not desire. {My ears you have opened}. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not demanded.

Exodus 21:14

But if a man schemes against his neighbor to kill him by treachery, you will take him from my altar to die.

Numbers 15:27

" 'If one person sins unintentionally, that person will present a female goat {in its first year} as a sin offering.

Numbers 15:30-31

But the one {who acts presumptuously} from among the native or alien blasphemes against Yahweh, and that person must be cut off from the midst of the people.

Numbers 35:31

Also, you will not take a ransom payment for the life of a killer who [is] guilty of death; indeed, he must surely be put to death.

Deuteronomy 22:22

"If a man is found lying {with a married woman}, then they shall both die; {both of them}, the man who lay with the woman and the woman [also], so you shall purge the evil from Israel.

1 Samuel 15:22

Then Samuel said, "Is there [as much] delight for Yahweh in burnt offerings and sacrifices as [there is] in {obeying} Yahweh? Look! {To obey} [is] better than sacrifice; to give heed than the fat of rams.

Psalm 50:8

It is not concerning [a lack of] your sacrifices [that] I rebuke you, and your burnt offerings [are] before me continually.

Psalm 51:6

Behold, you delight [in] truth in the inward parts, and in [the] hidden [parts] you make me to know wisdom.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination of Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright [is] his delight.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of the wicked [is] an abomination; how much more when he brings it in divisiveness!

Isaiah 1:11-15

What [is the] abundance of your sacrifices to me? says Yahweh. I have had enough [of] burnt offerings of rams and [the] fat [of] fattened animals and I do not delight in [the] blood of bulls and ram-lambs and goats.

Jeremiah 7:22-23

For I did not speak with your ancestors, nor did I command them in the day of bringing them out from the land of Egypt, concerning the matter of burnt offering and sacrifice.

Jeremiah 7:27

So you shall speak to them all these words, but they will not listen to you, and you shall call to them, but they will not answer you.

Hosea 6:6

Because I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Amos 5:21-23

"I hate, I despise your festivals, and I take no delight in your assemblies.

Hebrews 10:5-6

Therefore, [when he] came into the world, he said, "Sacrifice and offering you did not want, but a body you prepared for me;

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