Psalms 51:16
(51:18) For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: in burnt-offering hast thou no delight.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
In Context
15(51:17) O Lord, open thou my lips, and my mouth shall declare thy praise.
Cross References
Exodus 21:14But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbor, to slay him with guile, from my altar shalt thou take him, that he may die.
Numbers 15:30But the person that doth aught with a high hand, be he one born in the land, or a stranger, the same dishonoreth the Lord; and that person shall be cut off from among his people.
Deuteronomy 22:22If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband: then shall both of them die, the man that lieth with the woman, and the woman; and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.
2 Samuel 12:9Wherefore hast thou despised the word of the Lord to do what is evil in his eyes? Uriyah the Hittite hast thou smitten with the sword, and his wife hast thou taken unto thee for wife; but him hast thou slain with the sword of the children of 'Ammon.
Psalms 50:8Not because of thy sacrifices will I reprove thee; and thy burnt-offerings are continually before me.
Psalms 71:15My mouth shall relate thy righteousness, all the day thy salvation; for I know not their numbers.
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 →