Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
For thou delight not in sacrifice, else I would give it. Thou have no pleasure in burnt-offering.
New American Standard Bible
You are not pleased with burnt offering.
King James Version
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
Holman Bible
You are not pleased with a burnt offering.
International Standard Version
Indeed, you do not delight in sacrifices, or I would give them, nor do you desire burnt offerings.
American Standard Version
For thou delightest not in sacrifice; else would I give it: Thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering.
Amplified
For You do not delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it;
You are not pleased with burnt offering.
Bible in Basic English
You have no desire for an offering or I would give it; you have no delight in burned offerings.
Darby Translation
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering.
Julia Smith Translation
For thou wilt not delight in sacrifice, and thou wilt not take pleasure in burnt-offering.
King James 2000
For you desire not sacrifice; else would I give it: you delight not in burnt offering.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For you do not delight [in] sacrifice or I would give [it]. [With] a burnt offering you are not pleased.
Modern King James verseion
For You do not desire sacrifice; or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For if thou hadst pleasure in sacrifice, I would give it thee: but thou delightest not in burnt-offerings.
NET Bible
Certainly you do not want a sacrifice, or else I would offer it; you do not desire a burnt sacrifice.
New Heart English Bible
For you do not delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
The Emphasized Bible
For thou wilt not desire sacrifice - that I should give it, Ascending-offering, will not please:
Webster
For thou desirest not sacrifice: else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt-offering.
World English Bible
For you don't delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
Youngs Literal Translation
For Thou desirest not sacrifice, or I give it, Burnt-offering Thou acceptest not.
Themes
Formalism » The insufficiency of
Homicide » David's repentance for, and confession of, the murder of uriah
Offerings » Useless when not accompanied by genuine piety
Offerings » Withheld see offerings; withheld » Insufficient to secure salvation
Offerings » Many offences under the law, beyond the efficacy of
Prayer » Penitential » Of david
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 51:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Create In Me A Clean Heart, O God
15 O LORD, open thou my lips, and my mouth shall show forth thy praise. 16 For thou delight not in sacrifice, else I would give it. Thou have no pleasure in burnt-offering. 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, thou will not despise.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 40:6
Sacrifice and offering thou did not desire, {but a body thou have prepared for me (LXX/NT)}. Whole burnt-offering and sacrifice for sin thou did not require.
Exodus 21:14
And if a man comes presumptuously upon his neighbor, to kill him with guile, thou shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
Numbers 15:27
And if one soul sins unwittingly, then he shall offer a she-goat a year old for a sin-offering.
Numbers 15:30-31
But the soul that does anything with a high hand, whether he be home-born or a sojourner, the same blasphemes LORD, and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Numbers 35:31
Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death.
Deuteronomy 22:22
If a man be found laying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman. So shall thou put away the evil from Israel.
1 Samuel 15:22
And Samuel said, Has LORD as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
Psalm 50:8
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, and thy burnt-offerings [being] continually before me.
Psalm 51:6
Behold, thou desire truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part thou will make me to know wisdom.
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Proverbs 21:27
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination. How much more when he brings it with a wicked mind!
Isaiah 1:11-15
What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says LORD. I have had enough 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.
Jeremiah 7:22-23
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.
Jeremiah 7:27
And thou shall speak all these words to them, but they will not hearken to thee. Thou shall also call to them, but they will not answer thee.
Hosea 6:6
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.
Amos 5:21-23
I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
Hebrews 10:5-6
Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering thou did not desire, but thou prepared for me a body.