Parallel Verses
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.
A Conservative Version
For thou delight not in sacrifice, else I would give it. Thou have no pleasure in burnt-offering.
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 my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise.
16
You are not pleased with burnt offering.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 40:6
In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.
Exodus 21:14
But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
Numbers 15:27
"If one person sins unintentionally, he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering.
Numbers 15:30-31
But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, reviles the LORD, and that person shall be cut off from among his people.
Numbers 35:31
Moreover, you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he shall be put to death.
Deuteronomy 22:22
"If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.
1 Samuel 15:22
And Samuel said, "Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
Psalm 50:8
Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are continually before me.
Psalm 51:6
Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.
Proverbs 21:27
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with evil intent.
Isaiah 1:11-15
"What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says the LORD; I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts; I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of goats.
Jeremiah 7:22-23
For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Jeremiah 7:27
"So you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall call to them, but they will not answer you.
Hosea 6:6
For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Amos 5:21-23
"I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
Hebrews 10:5-6
Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, "Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me;