Psalms 51:16
For you desire not sacrifice; else would I give it: you delight not in burnt offering.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
In Context
15O Lord, open you my lips; and my mouth shall show forth your praise.
Cross References
Exodus 21:14But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; you shall take him from mine altar, that he may die.
Numbers 15:30But the soul that does ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproaches 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 an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shall you put away evil from Israel.
2 Samuel 12:9Wherefore have you despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? you have killed 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 will not reprove you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
Psalms 71:15My mouth shall show forth your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
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 →