Psalm 40:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

Sacrifice

Mine ears

Exodus 21:6

Job 33:16

Isaiah 50:4

General references

Isaiah 50:5

Bible References

Sacrifice

I will not reprove thee regarding thy sacrifices; thy burnt offerings are continually before me.

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

And Samuel said, Does the LORD have as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in hearing the voice of the LORD? Behold, to hear is better than sacrifice and to hearken than the fat of rams.

To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? shall the LORD say. I am full of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; and I do not delight in the blood of bullocks or of lambs or of he goats.

He that kills an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrifices a lamb as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offers an oblation as if he offered swine's blood; he that burns incense as if he blessed iniquity. They have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.

Thus hath the LORD of the hosts, the God of Israel said: Add your burnt offerings upon your sacrifices and eat flesh.

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Therefore go ye and learn what this is, I will have mercy and not sacrifice, for I am not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.

But if ye knew what this means, I will have mercy and not sacrifice, ye would not condemn the innocent.

Therefore when he came into the world, he said, Sacrifice and offering thou dost not desire, but a body hast thou prepared me;

Mine ears

Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him forever.

then he opens the ears of men and seals their instruction,

The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the wise that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary; he wakes up early, early shall he awaken my ear, that I might hear, as the wise.

General references

then he shall kill the lamb of the expiation of the guilt, and the priest shall take some of the blood of the expiation of the guilt and put it upon the tip of the right ear of the one that is to be purified and upon the thumb of his right hand and upon the great toe of his right foot.

And on the second day ye shall offer twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot;

And it shall be, if he says unto thee, I will not go away from thee because he loves thee and thy house because he is well with thee,

I will not reprove thee regarding thy sacrifices; thy burnt offerings are continually before me.

The Lord GOD has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.