Psalms 51:16
For thou desirest not sacrifice: else would I give it : thou delightest not in burnt-offering.
Webster Bible
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 thou my lips; and my mouth shall show forth thy praise.
Cross References
Exodus 21:14But if a man shall come presumptuously upon his neighbor, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from my altar, that he may die.
Numbers 15:30But the soul that doeth aught presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Deuteronomy 22:22If a man shall be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou remove evil from Israel.
2 Samuel 12:9Why hast thou despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Psalms 50:8I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt-offerings, to have been continually before me.
Psalms 71:15My mouth shall show forth thy righteousness and thy 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 →