the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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Psalms 51:17
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The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
The sacrifice God wants is a broken spirit. God, you will not reject a heart that is broken and sorry for sin.
The sacrifices God desires are a humble spirit— O God, a humble and repentant heart you will not reject.
The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
My [only] sacrifice [acceptable] to God is a broken spirit; A broken and contrite heart [broken with sorrow for sin, thoroughly penitent], such, O God, You will not despise.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
A sacrifice to God is a spirit troblid; God, thou schalt not dispise a contrit herte and `maad meke.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
The way to please you is to feel sorrow deep in our hearts. This is the kind of sacrifice you won't refuse.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.
Adonai, open my lips; then my mouth will praise you.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
The sacrifice that God wants is a humble spirit. God, you will not turn away someone who comes with a humble heart and is willing to obey you.
O Lord, open Thou my lips; and my mouth shall declare Thy praise.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
The gifts on an altar that God wants are a broken spirit. O God, You will not hate a broken heart and a heart with no pride.
The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
The sacrifices of God are a contrite spirit: a contrite and a broken heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
My sacrifice is a humble spirit, O God; you will not reject a humble and repentant heart.
The sacrifices of God, are a spirit that is broken, - A heart - broken and crushed, O God, thou wilt not despise.
(50-19) A sacrifice to God is an afflicted spirit: a contrite and humbled heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Sacrifices for God is a mortified spirite: O Lorde thou wylt not despise a mortified and an humble heart.
Sacrifice to God is a broken spirit: a broken and humbled heart God will not despise.
The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit.You will not despise a broken and humbled heart, God.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit, A heart broken and bruised, O God, Thou dost not despise.
The sacrifice of God is a troubled sprete, a broken and a cotrite hert (o God) shalt thou not despise.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, God, You will not despise.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart-- These, O God, You will not despise.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
sacrifices: Psalms 107:22, Mark 12:33, Romans 12:1, Philippians 4:18, Hebrews 13:16, 1 Peter 2:5
a broken spirit: Psalms 34:18, Psalms 147:3, 2 Kings 22:19, Isaiah 57:15, Isaiah 61:1-3, Isaiah 66:2, Ezekiel 9:3, Ezekiel 9:4, Ezekiel 9:6, Matthew 5:3, Luke 18:11-14
thou: Psalms 22:24, Psalms 102:17, 2 Chronicles 33:12, 2 Chronicles 33:13, Amos 5:21, Luke 7:39-50, Luke 15:2-7, Luke 15:10, Luke 15:21-32
Reciprocal: Exodus 37:22 - beaten work Leviticus 4:31 - a sweet Leviticus 7:3 - General Leviticus 9:10 - the fat Leviticus 23:32 - afflict Numbers 29:17 - General Deuteronomy 33:19 - they shall 1 Samuel 15:22 - Hath the Lord 2 Chronicles 34:27 - thine heart Job 42:6 - I Psalms 138:6 - Though Song of Solomon 8:1 - yea Jeremiah 7:22 - nor Jeremiah 44:10 - humbled Joel 2:13 - rend Matthew 12:20 - bruised Luke 4:18 - to heal Luke 7:38 - weeping John 4:24 - must
Gill's Notes on the Bible
The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit,.... That is humbled under a sense of sin; has true repentance for it; is smitten, wounded, and broken with it, by the word of God in the hand of the Spirit, which is a hammer to break the rock in pieces; and that not merely in a legal, but in an evangelical way; grieving for sin as committed against a God of love; broken and melted down under a sense of it, in a view of pardoning grace; and mourning for it, while beholding a pierced and wounded Saviour: the sacrifices of such a broken heart and contrite spirit are the sacrifices God desires, approves, accepts of, and delights in;
a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise; but regard, and receive with pleasure; see Psalms 102:17; the Lord binds up and heals such broken hearts and spirits, Psalms 147:3; he is nigh to such persons, looks upon them, has respect unto them, and comes and dwells among them, Psalms 34:18.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The sacrifices of God - The sacrifices which God desires and approves; the sacrifices without which no other offering would be acceptable. David felt that that which he here specified was what was demanded in his case. He had grievously sinned; and the blood of animals offered in sacrifice could not put away his sin, nor could anything remove it unless the heart were itself penitent and contrite. The same thing is true now. Though a most perfect sacrifice, every way acceptable to God, has been made for human guilt by the Redeemer, yet it is as true as it was under the old dispensation in regard to the sacrifices there required, that even that will not avail for us unless we are truly penitent; unless we come before God with a contrite and humble heart.
Are a broken spirit - A mind broken or crushed under the weight of conscious guilt. The idea is that of a burden laid on the Soul until it is crushed and subdued.
A broken and a contrite heart - The word rendered contrite means to be broken or crushed, as when the bones are broken, Psalms 44:19; Psalms 51:8; and then it is applied to the mind or heart as that which is crushed or broken by the weight of guilt. The word does not differ materially from the term “broken.” The two together constitute intensity of expression.
Thou wilt not despise - Thou wilt not treat with contempt or disregard. That is, God would look upon them with favor, and to such a heart he would grant his blessing. See the notes at Isaiah 57:15; notes at Isaiah 66:2.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 51:17. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit — As my crimes are such as admit of no legal atonement, so thou hast reserved them to be punished by exemplary acts of justice, or to be pardoned by a sovereign act of mercy: but in order to find this mercy, thou requirest that the heart and soul should deeply feel the transgression, and turn to thee with the fullest compunction and remorse. This thou hast enabled me to do. I have the broken spirit, רוח נשברה ruach nishbarah; and the broken and contrite heart, לב נשבר ונדכה leb nishbar venidkeh. These words are very expressive. שבר shabar signifies exactly the same as our word shiver, to break into pieces, to reduce into splinters; and דכה dakah, signifies to beat out thin, - to beat out masses of metal, c., into laminae or thin plates. The spirit broken all to pieces, and the heart broken all to pieces, stamped and beaten out, are the sacrifices which, in such cases, thou requirest and these "thou wilt not despise." We may now suppose that God had shone upon his soul, healed his broken spirit, and renewed and removed his broken and distracted heart; and that he had now received the answer to the preceding prayers. And here the Psalm properly ends; as, in the two following verses, there is nothing similar to what we find in the rest of this very nervous and most important composition.
