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

Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

"'If one person sins unwittingly, then he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering.

"'Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.

If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman: so you shall put away the evil from Israel.

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

Delightest

Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you have prepared for me. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind.

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

For I did not speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can't stand your solemn assemblies.

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

General references

one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

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

I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.