Psalms 69:31

Easy-to-Read Version

The Lord will be happier with this than with the offering of an ox or a full-grown bull as a sacrifice.

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
For this will please the Lord more than sacrificing cattle, more than presenting a bull with its horns and hooves.

English Revised Version
And it shall please the LORD better than an ox, or a bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

Update Bible Version
And it will please Yahweh better than an ox, [Or] a bull that has horns and hoofs.

New Century Version
That will please the Lord more than offering him cattle, more than sacrificing a bull with horns and hoofs.

New English Translation
That will please the Lord more than an ox or a bull with horns and hooves.

Webster's Bible Translation
[This] also shall please the LORD better than an ox [or] bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

World English Bible
It will please Yahweh better than an ox, Or a bull that has horns and hoofs.

Amplified Bible
And it will please the LORD better than an ox Or a young bull with horns and hoofs.

English Standard Version
This will please the Lord more than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And it schal plese God more than a newe calf; bryngynge forth hornes and clees.

Berean Standard Bible
And this will please the LORD more than an ox, more than a bull with horns and hooves.

Contemporary English Version
This will please the Lord better than offering an ox or a full-grown bull.

American Standard Version
And it will please Jehovah better than an ox, Or a bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

Bible in Basic English
This will be more pleasing to the Lord than an ox, or a young ox of full growth.

Complete Jewish Bible
I will praise God's name with a song and extol him with thanksgiving.

Darby Translation
And it shall please Jehovah more than an ox,—a bullock with horns and cloven hoofs.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify Him with thanksgiving.

New Life Bible
This will please the Lord more than any ox or young bull with horns and hoofs.

New Revised Standard
This will please the Lord more than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs.

Geneva Bible (1587)
This also shall please the Lord better then a yong bullocke, that hath hornes and hoofes.

George Lamsa Translation
This shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that has horns and hoofs.

Good News Translation
This will please the Lord more than offering him cattle, more than sacrificing a full-grown bull.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So shall it be more pleasing to Yahweh than a bullock of the herd, Showing horn and divided hoof.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(68-32) And it shall please God better than a young calf, that bringeth forth horns and hoofs.

Revised Standard Version
This will please the LORD more than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And it wyll please God: better then a bullocke that hath hornes and hoofes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and this shall please God more than a young calf having horns and hoofs.

Christian Standard Bible®
That will please the Lord more than an ox,more than a bull with horns and hooves.

Hebrew Names Version
It will please the LORD better than an ox, Or a bull that has horns and hoofs.

King James Version
This also shall please the Lord better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

Lexham English Bible
For Yahweh it will be better than an ox or bull, horned and hoofed.

Literal Translation
And it shall please Jehovah more than an ox, horned or hoofed bull.

Young's Literal Translation
And it is better to Jehovah than an ox, A bullock -- horned -- hoofed.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
That I maye prayse ye name of God with a songe, & magnifie it with thankesgeuynge.

THE MESSAGE
For God , this is better than oxen on the altar, Far better than blue-ribbon bulls.

New American Standard Bible
And it will please the LORD better than an ox Or bull with horns and hoofs.

New King James Version
This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bull, Which has horns and hooves.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And it will please the Lord better than an ox Or a young bull with horns and hoofs.

Legacy Standard Bible
And this will please Yahweh better than an oxOr a young bull with horns and hoofs.

Contextual Overview

³⁰ I will praise God's name in song. I will honor him by giving him thanks. ³¹ The Lord will be happier with this than with the offering of an ox or a full-grown bull as a sacrifice. ³² Poor people, you came to worship God. You will be happy to know these things. ³³ The Lord listens to poor, helpless people. He does not turn away from those who are in prison. ³⁴ Praise him, heaven and earth! Sea and everything in it, praise him! ³⁵ God will save Zion. He will rebuild the cities of Judah. The people will settle there again and own the land. ³⁶ The descendants of his servants will get that land. Those who love his name will live there.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

also shall: Psalms 50:13, Psalms 50:14, Psalms 50:23, Hosea 14:2, Ephesians 5:19, Ephesians 5:20, Hebrews 13:15, 1 Peter 2:5

Reciprocal: Leviticus 4:31 - a sweet Numbers 29:17 - General Proverbs 16:7 - please Malachi 3:3 - an Romans 12:1 - a living

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[This] also shall please the Lord,.... That is, this song of praise and thanksgiving. The Targum has it,

"my prayers;''

as if it retorted to Psalms 69:29; but what is expressed in Psalms 69:30 seems to be the proper antecedent to this, and which is a sacrifice; see Psalms 50:14; and more acceptable to God than any of the legal sacrifices, even when they were in force; and much more, now they are abrogated; and especially as offered up by the Messiah himself, all whose offerings are well pleasing to God; particularly the offering up of himself, which was for a sweet smelling savour to him, and in virtue of which all spiritual sacrifices of prayer and praise become acceptable unto God;

better than an ox [or] bullock that hath horns and hoofs; that is, than the best of legal sacrifices; as an ox or bullock was, whose horns and hoofs were grown; one of three years old, as Jarchi and Kimchi observe: the words may be literally rendered, "than an ox, than a bullock, than horns, than hoofs"; not only better than an ox or a bullock, but than any creature that has horns and hoofs; that is, than the lawful sacrifice of any animal whatever, as Junius renders and explains it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This also shall please the Lord - This will be more acceptable to the Lord.

Better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs - Better than a burnt sacrifice - horns, and hoofs, and all. The original here is, “horning and hoofing;” that is, an ox whose horns were fully grown, and whose hoofs were compact and solid; a perfect animal in its kind, offered whole on the altar. The psalmist does not say that such an offering would “not” be acceptable to the Lord, but that the offering of the heart - the sacrifice of praise - would be “more” acceptable than any such offering in itself considered. This sentiment accords with the common language of the Old Testament. See the notes at Psalms 40:6-8. Compare Psalms 51:16-17; 1 Samuel 15:22.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 69:31. An ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs. — Oxen offered in sacrifice had their horns and hoofs gilded; and the psalmist might mention these parts of the victim more particularly, because they were more conspicuous. Others think that full-grown animals are intended, those that had perfect horns, in opposition to calves or steers. I think the first the preferable sense; for the horns, &c., of consecrated animals are thus ornamented in the east to the present day.