OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 16

Psalms 51:16

For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it.

You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Psalms 51:16 in context

Psalms 51:13–19

Then I will teach transgressors your ways.

Sinners will be converted to you.

Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation.

My tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.

Lord, open my lips.

My mouth will declare your praise.

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For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it.

You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit.

O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.

Do well in your good pleasure to Zion.

Build the walls of Jerusalem.

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.

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