Psalms 51:16

WEB

¹⁶For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

KJV

¹⁶For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.

BSB

¹⁶For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings.

FBV

¹⁶For sacrifices don't make you happy, or I would bring one; burnt offerings aren't what pleases you.

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Extra References

Psalms 40:6

⁶Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

Hosea 6:6

⁶For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Hebrews 10:5-6

⁵Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me. ⁶You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.

1 Samuel 15:22

²²Samuel said, “Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the LORD’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

Psalms 51:6

⁶Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

Proverbs 21:27

²⁷The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination— how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!

¹¹“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says the LORD. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats. ¹²When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts? ¹³Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations— I can’t stand evil assemblies. ¹⁴My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them. ¹⁵When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

Jeremiah 7:22-23

²²For I didn’t speak to your fathers or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices; ²³but this thing I commanded them, saying, ‘Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. Walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’

Amos 5:21-23

²¹I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies. ²²Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals. ²³Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

Proverbs 15:8

⁸The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.