Psalms 51:16
For you do not delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it.You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
In Context
15Lord, open my lips.My mouth shall declare your praise.
17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit.A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Cross References
Exodus 21:14If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
Numbers 15:30"'But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, the same blasphemes the Lord; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Deuteronomy 22:22If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman: so you shall put away the evil from Israel.
2 Samuel 12:9Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Psalms 50:8I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices.Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
Psalms 71:15My mouth will tell about your righteousness,and of your salvation all day,though I do not know its full measure.
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 →