Psalms 51:16

World English Bible (2000)

For you don't delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 40:6 : 6 Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
  • Amos 5:21-23 : 21 I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can't stand your solemn assemblies. 22 Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals. 23 Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
  • Heb 10:5-6 : 5 Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire, but you prepared a body for me; 6 You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.
  • 1 Sam 15:22 : 22 Samuel said, "Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
  • Exod 21:14 : 14 If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
  • Num 15:27 : 27 "'If one person sins unwittingly, then he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering.
  • Num 15:30-31 : 30 "'But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, the same blasphemes Yahweh; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 31 Because he has despised the word of Yahweh, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be on him.'"
  • Num 35:31 : 31 "'Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.
  • Ps 50:8 : 8 I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
  • Ps 51:6 : 6 Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
  • Prov 21:27 : 27 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!
  • Isa 1:11-15 : 11 "What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?," says Yahweh. "I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats. 12 When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts? 13 Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can't bear with evil assemblies. 14 My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them. 15 When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
  • Jer 7:22-23 : 22 For I didn't speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: 23 but this thing I commanded them, saying, Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.
  • Jer 7:27 : 27 You shall speak all these words to them; but they will not listen to you: you shall also call to them; but they will not answer you.
  • Hos 6:6 : 6 For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
  • Deut 22:22 : 22 If 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 40:6
    86%

    6 Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

  • Heb 10:5-6
    2 verses
    85%

    5 Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, "Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire, but you prepared a body for me;

    6 You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.

  • Ps 51:17-19
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    85%

    17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

    18 Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.

    19 Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar. For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, "David has come to Abimelech's house."

  • Heb 10:8
    81%

    8 Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't desire, neither had pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the law),

  • Hos 6:6
    80%

    6 For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

  • Amos 5:21-23
    3 verses
    79%

    21 I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can't stand your solemn assemblies.

    22 Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.

    23 Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

  • Ps 50:8-9
    2 verses
    78%

    8 I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

    9 I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.

  • Isa 1:11-13
    3 verses
    78%

    11 "What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?," says Yahweh. "I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.

    12 When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?

    13 Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can't bear with evil assemblies.

  • Isa 43:23-24
    2 verses
    76%

    23 You have not brought me of your sheep for burnt offerings; neither have you honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense.

    24 You have bought me no sweet cane with money, nor have you filled me with the fat of your sacrifices; but you have burdened me with your sins. You have wearied me with your iniquities.

  • Jer 6:20
    74%

    20 To what purpose comes there to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me."

  • 1 Sam 15:22
    74%

    22 Samuel said, "Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.

  • Mal 1:10
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    10 "Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you," says Yahweh of Armies, "neither will I accept an offering at your hand.

  • Ps 66:15
    74%

    15 I will offer to you burnt offerings of fat animals, with the offering of rams, I will offer bulls with goats. Selah.

  • Ps 51:15
    73%

    15 Lord, open my lips. My mouth shall declare your praise.

  • Mic 6:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6 How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

    7 Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams? With tens of thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience? The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

  • Jer 7:21-22
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    21 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat.

    22 For I didn't speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

  • Ps 69:31
    72%

    31 It will please Yahweh better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs.

  • 1 Sam 2:29
    71%

    29 Why do you kick at my sacrifice and at my offering, which I have commanded in [my] habitation, and honor your sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the best of all the offerings of Israel my people?'

  • Ps 5:4
    71%

    4 For you are not a God who has pleasure in wickedness. Evil can't live with you.

  • Mal 1:8
    71%

    8 When you offer the blind for sacrifice, isn't that evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, isn't that evil? Present it now to your governor! Will he be pleased with you? Or will he accept your person?" says Yahweh of Armies.

  • Prov 15:8
    71%

    8 The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

  • Lev 22:29
    71%

    29 "When you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to Yahweh, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.

  • Prov 21:3
    71%

    3 To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

  • Ps 54:6
    71%

    6 With a free will offering, I will sacrifice to you. I will give thanks to your name, Yahweh, for it is good.

  • Deut 17:1
    70%

    1 You shall not sacrifice to Yahweh your God an ox, or a sheep, in which is a blemish, [or] anything evil; for that is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

  • Ps 50:13-14
    2 verses
    70%

    13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

    14 Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.

  • Amos 4:5
    70%

    5 offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them: for this pleases you, you children of Israel," says the Lord Yahweh.

  • Num 15:3
    70%

    3 and will make an offering by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a freewill offering, or in your set feasts, to make a pleasant aroma to Yahweh, of the herd, or of the flock;

  • Isa 66:3
    70%

    3 He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog's neck; he who offers an offering, [as he who offers] pig's blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:

  • Prov 21:27
    69%

    27 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!

  • Lev 17:8
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    8 "You shall say to them, 'Any man there is of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,

  • Isa 40:16
    69%

    16 Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.

  • Mal 1:13
    69%

    13 You say also, 'Behold, what a weariness it is!' and you have sniffed at it," says Yahweh of Armies; "and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?" says Yahweh.

  • Mal 2:13
    69%

    13 This again you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn't regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.

  • Isa 57:6
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    6 Among the smooth [stones] of the valley is your portion; they, they are your lot; you have even poured a drink offering to them. You have offered an offering. Shall I be appeased for these things?

  • 2 Sam 15:26
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    26 but if he say thus, 'I have no delight in you;' behold, here am I. Let him do to me as seems good to him."

  • Lev 19:5
    69%

    5 "'When you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.

  • Ps 116:17
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    17 I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call on the name of Yahweh.