Psalms 51:16
\51:14\Be my saviour from violent death, O God, the God of my salvation; and my tongue will give praise to your righteousness.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
In Context
15\51:13\Then will I make your ways clear to wrongdoers; and sinners will be turned to you.
17\51:15\O Lord, let my lips be open, so that my mouth may make clear your praise.
Cross References
Exodus 21:14But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose, to put him to death by deceit, you are to take him from my altar and put him to death.
Numbers 15:30But the person who does wrong in the pride of his heart, if he is one of you or of another nation by birth, is acting without respect for the Lord, and will be cut off from his people.
Deuteronomy 22:22If a man is taken in the act of going in to a married woman, the two of them, the man as well as the woman, are to be put to death: so you are to put away the evil from Israel.
2 Samuel 12:9Why then have you had no respect for the word of the Lord, doing what is evil in his eyes? You have put Uriah the Hittite to death with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife; you have put him to death with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Psalms 50:8I will not take up a cause against you because of your offerings, or because of your burned offerings, which are ever before me.
Psalms 71:15My mouth will make clear your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for they are more than may be measured.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 51:15-19
Penitential Petitions. 14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. 15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall show forth thy praise. 16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. 18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem. 19 Then shalt thou… Read the whole commentary →