Psalm 40:6

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.

Cross References

Job 33:16

Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,

Job 5:9

who does great things that can't be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

Psalm 139:17

How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!

Psalm 139:18

If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you.

Psalm 50:8

I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

Psalm 51:16

For you don't delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

Psalm 71:15

My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your yeshu`ah all day, though I don't know its full measure.

Exodus 21:6

then his master shall bring him to God, and shall bring him to the door or to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever.

Isaiah 1:11

*What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?,* says the LORD. *I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.

Isaiah 25:1

The LORD, you are my God. I will exalt you! I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, things planned long ago, in complete faithfulness and truth.

Isaiah 66:3

He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog's neck; he who offers an offering, [as he who offers] pig's blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:

Hosea 6:6

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

Amos 5:22

Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the shalom offerings of your fat animals.

Matthew 12:7

But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.

Matthew 9:13

But you go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.*

1 Samuel 15:22

Shemu'el said, Has 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 listen than the fat of rams.