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, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

But if a man shall come presumptuously upon his neighbor, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from my altar, that he may die.

And if any soul shall sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she-goat of the first year for a sin-offering.

Moreover, ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.

If a man shall be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou remove evil from Israel.

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

Delightest

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

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt-offerings, to have been continually before me.

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

The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?

To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.

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

I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

General references

One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt-offering:

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

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt-offerings, to have been continually before me.