Psalms 51:16
For thou desirest{H8799)} not sacrifice; else would I give{H8799)} it: thou delightest{H8799)} not in burnt offering.
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- Amos 5:21-23 : 21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. 22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. 23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
- Exod 21:14 : 14 But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
- Num 15:30-31 : 30 But the soul that doeth ought 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. 31 Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
- Ps 50:8 : 8 I will not reprove{H8686)} thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
- Prov 21:27 : 27 The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
- Isa 1:11-15 : 11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. 14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. 15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
- Jer 7:22-23 : 22 For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: 23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Ps 51:17-193 verses85%
17The sacrifices of God are a broken{H8737)} spirit: a broken{H8737)} and a contrite{H8737)} heart, O God, thou wilt not despise{H8799)}.
18Do good{H8685)} in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build{H8799)} thou the walls of Jerusalem.
19Then shalt thou be pleased{H8799)} with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer{H8686)} bullocks upon thine altar.
- Amos 5:21-233 verses79%
21I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
22Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
23Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
- Ps 50:8-92 verses78%
8I will not reprove{H8686)} thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
9I will take{H8799)} no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
- Isa 1:11-133 verses78%
11To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
12When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
13Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
- Isa 43:23-242 verses76%
23Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.
24Thou hast bought me no sweet cane with money, neither hast thou filled me with the fat of thy sacrifices: but thou hast made me to serve with thy sins, thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities.
- Mic 6:6-72 verses73%
6Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
7Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
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3He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
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27The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind?
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16And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.