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

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 more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices."

Therefore I urge you, brothers, 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, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.

But do not forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

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

A broken spirit

The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.

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

because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before the LORD, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you,' says the LORD.

For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who 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 is on me; because he has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and an opening of the eyes to those who are bound;

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

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 to himself like this: 'God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

Thou

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

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

When he was in distress, he begged the LORD his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can't stand your solemn assemblies.

Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, "This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner."

The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, "This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them."

General references

He shall offer all of its fat: the fat tail, and the fat that covers the entrails,

"'On the second day you shall offer twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish;