Ecclesiastes 15:8

Nova Vulgata

Victimae impiorum abominabiles Domino; vota iustorum grata sunt ei.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Victim� impiorum abominabiles Domino ; vota justorum placabilia.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Victim� impiorum abominabiles Domino;
vota justorum placabilia.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sacrifice: Proverbs 21:27, Proverbs 28:9, Isaiah 1:10-15, Isaiah 61:8, Isaiah 66:3, Jeremiah 6:20, Jeremiah 7:21-23, Amos 5:21, Amos 5:22, John 4:24

the prayer: Proverbs 15:29, 1 Chronicles 29:17, Psalms 17:1, Song of Solomon 2:14

Reciprocal: Genesis 18:32 - Oh Genesis 20:17 - General Leviticus 11:34 - General Numbers 23:1 - seven altars Deuteronomy 17:1 - for that 1 Samuel 13:9 - he offered 1 Kings 1:9 - slew 1 Kings 3:10 - pleased 1 Chronicles 21:26 - and called 2 Chronicles 33:19 - his prayer also Job 2:3 - an upright Job 8:6 - thou wert Job 16:17 - my prayer Job 22:3 - any pleasure Job 35:13 - God Psalms 10:17 - humble Psalms 19:14 - Let Psalms 33:1 - praise Psalms 51:16 - delightest Psalms 66:18 - If I regard Psalms 109:7 - and let Psalms 141:2 - Let my prayer Psalms 145:18 - call upon Proverbs 6:16 - an Proverbs 7:14 - I have peace offerings with me Proverbs 11:20 - upright Proverbs 12:22 - but Proverbs 17:15 - abomination Proverbs 21:3 - General Proverbs 21:4 - and the Ecclesiastes 5:1 - give Isaiah 1:11 - what purpose Isaiah 43:23 - honoured Isaiah 45:19 - Seek Isaiah 58:2 - they seek Jeremiah 7:10 - come Jeremiah 11:15 - to do Jeremiah 14:12 - and when Ezekiel 14:3 - should Ezekiel 20:3 - As I Hosea 5:6 - go Haggai 2:14 - So is this people Malachi 2:13 - insomuch Matthew 6:5 - when John 4:23 - the Father seeketh Acts 9:11 - for Philippians 4:6 - known 1 Timothy 2:8 - lifting 2 Timothy 2:22 - call Hebrews 11:4 - a more James 1:7 - General James 4:3 - and James 5:16 - The effectual 1 Peter 3:12 - his ears

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The sacrifice of the wicked [is] an abomination to the Lord,.... Even those sacrifices which were of divine appointment under the former dispensation, when offered by wicked men, without faith in Christ, without any sense of sin, repentance for it, and reformation from it; when these were used as a cloak for sin, under which they sheltered and satisfied themselves, and went on in sin; when they brought them "with a wicked mind", as in Proverbs 21:27; when either what they brought were not according to the law, the lame and the blind; or were not their own, but robbery for burnt sacrifice; or supposing that these would atone for their sins of themselves; when either of these, or all this, was the case, it was an abomination to the Lord; see Isaiah 1:11. Wherefore much more must Pagan sacrifices be an abomination to him; which were not of his appointing, and were offered to devils, and not to him; and which were many of them very inhuman and shocking; as giving a man's firstborn for his transgression, and the fruit of his body for the sin of his soul: and so likewise Papal sacrifices, the sacrifice of the mass; the bloodless sacrifice, the offering up again of the body and blood of Christ, they pretend to; which, as it is wicked and blasphemous, is an abomination to the Lord, and perhaps is chiefly intended. Sacrifice may stand for every religious duty performed by a wicked man, being hypocritically done, and with no good view; and all their good works, which seem to be so; and are either not according to the word and will of God, being never commanded by him, of which sort are many among the Papists; or they are not done in faith, and so sin, and do not spring from love to God; but are done with a heart full of enmity to him, and are not directed to his glory: in short, whatever is done by them, let it have ever such an appearance of devotion and goodness; yet if it is placed in the room of Christ, and used to the setting aside of his righteousness, satisfaction, and sacrifice, it is an abomination to the Lord;

but the prayer of the upright [is] his delight: the prayer of such, whose hearts are right with God; who have right spirits renewed in them; are Israelites indeed; have the truth of grace and root of the matter in them; are honest, sincere, and upright in heart: the prayer of such, which is an inwrought one, wrought in his heart by the Spirit of God, and so comes from God, and is his own breathing in him, must be well pleasing to him; that which is fervent, earnest, and importunate, which cometh not out of feigned lips, but from the heart, and is put up with a true heart, in the sincerity of it; the prayer of faith, the cry of the humble; the prayer which is addressed to God as a Father, in the name of Christ the Mediator, which comes perfumed with the incense of his mediation, introduced with the celebration of the divine perfections, contains humble confessions of sin and unworthiness, ascribes all blessings to the grace of God, and expresses thankfulness for favours received, is very acceptable and delightful to God; though it is the prayer of a poor, mean, despicable creature in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others, Psalms 102:17. This stands opposed to the pompous rites and ceremonies, the gaudy worship and costly sacrifices, of wicked men; such as used by the Papists.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 15:8. The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination — Even the most sedulous attendance on the ordinances of God, and performance of the ceremonies of religion, is an abomination to the Lord, if the heart be not right with him, and the observance do not flow from a principle of pure devotion. No religious acts will do in place of holiness to the Lord.

The prayer of the upright is his delight. — What a motive to be upright; and what a motive to the upright to pray! But who is the upright? The man who is weary of sin, and sincerely desires the salvation of God; as well as he who has already received a measure of that salvation. Hence it is said in the next verse, "He loveth him that followeth after righteousness."