Psalm 51:16

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Summary

Psalm 51:16

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

Desirest

Delightest

General references

Numbers 7:27

Numbers 29:17

Psalm 50:8

Bible References

Desirest

But lo, thou hast a pleasure in the truth, and hast showed me secret wisdom.

If a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor and slay him with guile, thou shalt take him from mine altar that he die.

If any one soul sin through ignorance he shall bring a she-goat of a year old for a sin offering.

Moreover ye shall take none amends for the life of the murderer, which is worthy to die: But he shall be put to death.

If a man be found lying with a woman that hath a wedded husband, they shall die: both the man that lie with the wife, and also the wife. So shalt thou put away evil from Israel.

For I have pleasure in loving-kindness, and not in offering: Yea in the knowledge of God, more than in burnt sacrifice.

Delightest

Sacrifice and meat-offering thou wouldest not, but mine ears hast thou opened. Burnt-offerings and sacrifice for sin hast thou not required.

I reprove thee not because of thy sacrifice; thy burnt-offerings are always before me.

The LORD abhorreth the sacrifice of the ungodly; but the prayer of the righteous is acceptable to him.

The sacrifice of the ungodly is abomination, for they offer the thing that is gotten with wickedness.

Why offer ye so many sacrifices unto me, sayeth the LORD? I am full of the burnt offerings of weathers, and with the fatness of fed beasts. I have no pleasure in the blood of bullocks, lambs, and goats.

But when I brought your fathers out of Egypt, I spake no word unto them of burnt offerings and sacrifices:

"'I hate and abhor your holidays, and whereas ye cense me when ye come together I will not accept it.

Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, "Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not have: but a body hast thou ordained me.

General references

and an ox and a ram and a lamb of a year old for burnt offerings;

And the second day, twelve young bullocks, two rams, and fourteen yearling lambs without spot:

I reprove thee not because of thy sacrifice; thy burnt-offerings are always before me.