Psalm 51:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁶ For thou delightest not in sacrifice; else would I give it: Thou hast no pleasure in burnt offering.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: Thou delightest not in burnt offering.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ For You delight not in sacrifice, or else would I give it; You find no pleasure in burnt offering. [I Sam. 15:22.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ For thou delightest not in sacrifice; else would I give it: Thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ You don’t want sacrifices. If I gave an entirely burned offering, you wouldn’t be pleased.

Psalm 51:16 Cross References

2 Samuel 12:9

Wherefore hast thou despised the word of the LORD, to do that which is evil in his sight? thou hast smitten Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.

Psalm 40:6

Sacrifice and offering thou hast no delight in; Mine ears hast thou opened: Burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

Psalm 50:8

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices; And thy burnt offerings are continually before me.

Psalm 51:6

Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: And in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

Psalm 71:15

My mouth shall tell of thy righteousness, And of thy salvation all the day; For I know not the numbers thereof

Exodus 21:14

And if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: But the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination: How much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind!

Jeremiah 7:27

And thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.

Hosea 6:6

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Numbers 15:27

And if one person sin unwittingly, then he shall offer a she-goat of the first year for a sin offering.

Numbers 35:31

Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a manslayer, which is guilty of death: but he shall surely be put to death.

Deuteronomy 22:22

If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away the evil from Israel.

1 Samuel 15:22

And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.