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 don't rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

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

Samuel said, "Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

"What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?," says Yahweh. "I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.

He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog's neck; he who offers an offering, [as he who offers] pig's blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:

Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat.

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

But you go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.

Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire, but you prepared a body for me;

Mine ears

then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.

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

The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary: he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

General references

He shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering. The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering and put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

"'On the second day [you shall offer] twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish;

It shall be, if he tells you, "I will not go out from you;" because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;

I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

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