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Psalms 51:16
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You do not want a sacrifice, or I would give it;you are not pleased with a burnt offering.
For you don't delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
You are not pleased by sacrifices, or I would give them. You don't want burnt offerings.
Certainly you do not want a sacrifice, or else I would offer it; you do not desire a burnt sacrifice.
For You do not delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it; You are not pleased with burnt offering.
For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it; You do not take pleasure in burnt offering.
For you don't delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
For thou desirest no sacrifice, though I would giue it: thou delitest not in burnt offering.
For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it;You are not pleased with burnt offering.
For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings.
Offerings and sacrifices are not what you want.
Rescue me from the guilt of shedding blood, God, God of my salvation! Then my tongue will sing about your righteousness —
For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering.
You don't really want sacrifices, or I would give them to you.
For thou desirest not sacrifice; thou &lightest not in burnt offerings.
You do not want sacrifices, or I would offer them; you are not pleased with burnt offerings.
For you do not delight in sacrifice or I would give it. With a burnt offering you are not pleased.
For you do not desire sacrifice, or I would give it ; You do not delight in burnt offering.
For yf thou haddest pleasure in sacrifice, I wolde geue it the: but thou delytest not in burntofferynges.
For thou delightest not in sacrifice; else would I give it: Thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering.
You have no desire for an offering or I would give it; you have no delight in burned offerings.
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, Thou God of my salvation;
For thou desirest not sacrifice: else would I giue it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
For thou desirest no sacrifice, els I would geue it thee: thou delightest not in a burnt offering.
For if thou desiredst sacrifice, I would have given it: thou wilt not take pleasure in whole-burnt-offerings.
For thou delightest not in sacrifice; else would I give it: thou hast no pleasure in burnt offering.
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For you do not delight in sacrifice; or else would I give it: You have no pleasure in burnt-offering.
For thou desirest not sacrifice: else would I give [it]: thou delightest not in burnt-offering.
For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering.
You do not desire a sacrifice, or I would offer one. You do not want a burnt offering.
For You are not happy with a gift given on the altar in worship, or I would give it. You are not pleased with burnt gifts.
For you have no delight in sacrifice; if I were to give a burnt offering, you would not be pleased.
For thou wilt not desire sacrifice - that I should give it, Ascending-offering, will not please:
(50-18) For if thou hadst desired sacrifice, I would indeed have given it: with burnt offerings thou wilt not be delighted.
For thou hast no delight in sacrifice; were I to give a burnt offering, thou wouldst not be pleased.
For Thou desirest not sacrifice, or I give [it], Burnt-offering Thou acceptest not.
Going through the motions doesn't please you, a flawless performance is nothing to you. I learned God-worship when my pride was shattered. Heart-shattered lives ready for love don't for a moment escape God's notice.
For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it; You are not pleased with burnt offering.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
desirest: Psalms 51:6, Exodus 21:14, Numbers 15:27, Numbers 15:30, Numbers 15:31, Numbers 35:31, Deuteronomy 22:22, Hosea 6:6
else would I: or, that I should
delightest: Psalms 40:6, Psalms 50:8, Proverbs 15:8, Proverbs 21:27, Isaiah 1:11-15, Jeremiah 7:22, Jeremiah 7:23, Jeremiah 7:27, Amos 5:21-23, Hebrews 10:5, Hebrews 10:6
Reciprocal: Leviticus 4:31 - a sweet Numbers 7:27 - General Numbers 29:17 - General Deuteronomy 33:19 - they shall 1 Samuel 2:25 - if a man 1 Samuel 3:14 - the iniquity 1 Samuel 15:22 - Hath the Lord 2 Samuel 12:13 - thou Micah 6:7 - pleased Hebrews 9:9 - as pertaining Hebrews 10:4 - not
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For thou desirest not sacrifice,.... Legal sacrifice; for there was no sacrifice appointed under the law for murder and adultery;
else would I give [it]; he would gladly have offered it up;
thou delightest not in burnt offering; at least such kind of sacrifices, though they were of divine appointment, and at that time in full force and use; yet they were not the only and principal sacrifices God desired and delighted in; nor were they at all acceptable to him without faith in Christ, and an humble sense of sin; and when offered in the best manner, yet spiritual obedience, acts of mercy, and sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving, were more pleasing to him,
1 Samuel 15:15; wherefore the psalmist proposed to offer praise in Psalms 51:15, and adds what follows.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
For thou desirest not sacrifice ... - On the words rendered in this verse “sacrifice” and “burnt-offering,” see the notes at Isaiah 1:11. On the main sentiment here expressed - that God did not “desire” such sacrifices - see the notes at Psalms 40:6-8. The idea here is, that any mere external offering, however precious or costly it might be, was not what God required in such cases. He demanded the expression of deep and sincere repentance; the sacrifices of a contrite heart and of a broken spirit: Psalms 51:17. No offering without this could be acceptable; nothing without this could secure pardon. In mere outward sacrifices - in bloody offerings themselves, unaccompanied with the expression of genuine penitence, God could have no pleasure. This is one of the numerous passages in the Old Testament which show that the external offerings of the law were valueless unless accompanied by the religion of the heart; or that the Jewish religion, much as it abounded in forms, yet required the offerings of pure hearts in order that man might be acceptable to God. Under all dispensations the real nature of religion is the same. Compare the notes at Hebrews 9:9-10. The phrase “else would I give it,” in the margin, “that I should give it,” expresses a willingness to make such an offering, if it was required, while, at the same time, there is the implied statement that it would be valueless without the heart.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 51:16. For thou desirest not sacrifice — This is the same sentiment which he delivers in Psalms 40:6, c., where see the notes. There may be here, however, a farther meaning: Crimes, like mine, are not to be expiated by any sacrifices that the law requires nor hast thou appointed in the law any sacrifices to atone for deliberate murder and adultery: if thou hadst, I would cheerfully have given them to thee. The matter is before thee as Judge.
