Psalms 51:16
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
KJV
For thou delightest not in sacrifice; else would I give it: Thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering.
ASV
הַצִּ֘ילֵ֤/נִי מִ/דָּמִ֨ים אֱֽלֹהִ֗ים אֱלֹהֵ֥י תְּשׁוּעָתִ֑/י תְּרַנֵּ֥ן לְ֝שׁוֹנִ֗/י צִדְקָתֶֽ/ךָ
Hebrew
For Thou desirest not sacrifice, or I give it , Burnt-offering Thou acceptest not.
YLT
For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
WEB
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
וֹ
v
noun · 356×
יְרַנֵּֽנוּ
yrnnv
verb · 52×
ךָ
k
noun · 2564×
ם
m
noun · 116×
נִי
ny
verb · 211×
צְדָקָ֖ה
tsdqh
noun · 157×
תְּשׁוּעָ֥ה
tshv'h
noun · 32×
Themes
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Chapter 5.—Of the Sacrifices Which God Does Not Require, But Wished to Be Observed for the Exhibition of Those Things Which He Does Require. And who is so foolish as to suppose that the things offered to God are needed by Him for some uses of His own? Divine Scripture in many places explodes this idea. Not to be wearisome, suffice it to quote this brief saying from a psalm: “I …
'Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Thy lovingkindness.' See Ps. li. 1. David, the king and prophet, having sinned with Bathsheba, was reproved by Nathan the prophet. And he who had been bold enough to commit the sin was not too proud to confess it. Out of this deep humiliation he composed this Psalm, which the whole Church now uses as her own prayer. For who does not need…
Cross-references
- 1Sam 15:22 — And Samuel said, Hath 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 hearken than the fat of rams.
- 1Sam 15:22 — And Samuel said, Hath 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 hearken than the fat of rams.
- 2Sam 12:13 — And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD. And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.
- Amos 5:21 — I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
- Deut 22:22 — If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
- Deut 33:19 — They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.
- Exod 21:14 — But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
- Heb 9:9 — Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
- Heb 10:4 — For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
- Heb 10:5 — Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
- Hos 6:6 — For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
- Isa 1:11 — To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lamb
- Isa 1:11 — To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lamb
- Jer 7:22 — For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
- Jer 7:22 — For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
- Jer 7:27 — Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.
- Mic 6:6 — Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
- Mic 6:7 — Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
- Num 15:27 — And if any soul sin through ignorance, then he shall bring a she goat of the first year for a sin offering.
- Num 15:30 — But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
- Num 35:31 — Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.
- Prov 15:8 — The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
- Prov 21:27 — The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
- Ps 40:6 — Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
- Ps 40:6 — Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
- Ps 50:8 — I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
- Ps 50:8 — I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
- Ps 51:6 — Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.