Psalm 40:6

The Scriptures 2009

Slaughtering and meal offering You did not desire; You have opened my ears; Ascending offering and sin offering You did not ask for.

Cross References

Job 33:16

then He opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,

Job 5:9

who is doing great and unsearchable deeds, innumerable wonders,

Psalm 139:17

And how precious are Your thoughts to me, O Ěl! How great has been the sum of them!

Psalm 139:18

If I should count them, They would be more than the sand; When I wake up, I am still with You.

Psalm 50:8

I do not reprove you for your slaughterings, And your ascending offerings are continually before Me.”

Psalm 51:16

For You do not desire slaughtering, or I would give it; You do not delight in ascending offering.

Psalm 71:15

My mouth recounts Your righteousness Your deliverance all the day, Though I do not know their numbers.

Exodus 21:6

then his master shall bring him before Elohim, and shall bring him to the door, or to the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl. And he shall serve him forever.

Isaiah 1:11

“Of what use to Me are your many slaughterings?” declares יהוה. “I have had enough of ascending offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts. I do not delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs or goats.

Isaiah 25:1

O יהוה, You are my Elohim. I exalt You, I praise Your Name, for You shall do a wonder – counsels of long ago, trustworthiness, truth.

Isaiah 66:3

"But whoever slays the bull strikes a man; whoever slaughters the lamb breaks a dog’s neck; whoever brings a grain offering – pig’s blood; whoever burns incense blesses an idol. Indeed, they have chosen their own ways, and their being delights in their abominations.

Hosea 6:6

“For I delight in loving-commitment and not slaughtering, and in the knowledge of Elohim more than ascending offerings.

Amos 5:22

“Though you offer Me ascending offerings and your grain offerings, I do not accept them, nor do I look on your fattened peace offerings.

Matthew 12:7

“And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire compassion and not offering,’ you would not have condemned the blameless.

Matthew 9:13

But go and learn what this means, ‘I desire compassion and not offering.’ For I did not come to call the righteous to repentance, but sinners.

1 Samuel 15:22

Then Shemu’ĕl said, “Does יהוה delight in ascending offerings and slaughterings, as in obeying the voice of יהוה? Look, to obey is better than a slaughtering, to heed is better than the fat of rams.