Psalm 51:17

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Summary

Psalm 51:17

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Sacrifices

A broken spirit

Thou

General references

Leviticus 7:3

Numbers 29:17

Bible References

Sacrifices

And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with singing.

And to love him from the whole heart, and from the whole understanding, and from the whole soul, and from the whole strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more than all whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices.

I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, your reasonable service.

But I receive all things, and I abound. I have been filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things from you, an aroma of fragrance, an acceptable sacrifice well-pleasing to God.

But do not forget benevolence and fellowship, for God is well pleased with such sacrifices.

ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

A broken spirit

LORD is near to those who are of a broken heart, and saves such as are of a contrite spirit.

He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.

because thy heart was tender, and thou humbled thyself before LORD when thou heard what I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn thy clothes, and

For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, also with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart o

The Spirit of lord LORD is upon me, because LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, {and recovering of sight to the blind (LXX/NT)}, and

For all these things my hand has made, and all these things came to be, says LORD. But to this man I will look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.

And the glory of the God of Israel went up from the cherub, upon which it was, to the threshold of the house, and he called to the man clothed in linen who had the writer's case by his side.

Blessed are the poor in spirit, because the kingdom of the heavens is theirs.

Having stood by himself, the Pharisee prayed these things: God, I thank thee that I am not as the rest of men, predatory, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.

Thou

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, neither has he hid his face from him, but when he cried to him, he heard.

He has regarded the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.

And when he was in distress, he besought LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

I hate, I despise your feasts, and I will take no delight in your solemn assemblies.

But when the Pharisee who invited him saw it, he spoke within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would know who and what kind the woman is who touches him, that she is sinful.

And the Pharisees and the scholars murmured, saying, This man receives sinners and eats with them.

General references

And he shall offer from it all the fat of it. He shall take away the fat tail, and the fat that covers the innards,

And on the second day, twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish,