Psalm 51:17 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition My sacrifice [the sacrifice acceptable] to God is a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart [broken down with sorrow for sin and humbly and thoroughly penitent], such, O God, You will not despise. American Standard Version (1901) The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Common English Bible A broken spirit is my sacrifice, God. You won’t despise a heart, God, that is broken and crushed. |
because your heart was tender, and you did humble yourself before the LORD, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard you, says the LORD.
He has responded to the prayer of the destitute, and has not despised their prayer.
Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with singing.
For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.
The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit.
Their buds and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold.
For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
For all these things has my hand made, and [so] all these things came to be, says the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.
kill utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but don't come near any man on whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.
I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can't stand your solemn assemblies.
*Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.*
Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.*
Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.
But don't forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Yeshua the Messiah.