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 with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is much more than all whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

But I have all things, and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, and odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well-pleasing to God.

But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

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

A broken spirit

Jehovah is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart, And saveth such as are of a contrite spirit.

He healeth the broken in heart, And bindeth up their wounds.

because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before Jehovah, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith Jehovah.

For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovah hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

For all these things hath my hand made, and'so all these things came to be, saith Jehovah: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth at my word.

And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house: and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer's inkhorn by his side.

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.

Thou

For he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; Neither hath he hid his face from him; But when he cried unto him, he heard.

He hath regarded the prayer of the destitute, And hath not despised their prayer.

And when he was in distress, he besought Jehovah 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.

Now when the Pharisee that had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him, that she is a sinner.

And both the Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.

General references

And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof: the fat tail, and the fat that covereth the inwards,

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