Psalm 40:6 - King James 2000 Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; my ears have you opened: burnt offering and sin offering have you not required. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; Mine ears hast thou opened: Burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Sacrifice and offering You do not desire, nor have You delight in them; You have given me the capacity to hear and obey [Your law, a more valuable service than] burnt offerings and sin offerings [which] You do not require. American Standard Version (1901) Sacrifice and offering thou hast no delight in; Mine ears hast thou opened: Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required. Common English Bible You don’t relish sacrifices or offerings; you don’t require entirely burned offerings or compensation offerings— but you have given me ears! Catholic Public Domain Version My enemies have spoken evils against me. When will he die and his name perish? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version My enemies have spoken evils against me: when shall he die and his name perish? |
Who does great things and unsearchable; marvelous things without number:
How precious also are your thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with you.
I will not reprove you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
For you desire not sacrifice; else would I give it: you delight not in burnt offering.
My mouth shall show forth your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for I know not the limits thereof.
Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him forever.
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? says the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of male goats.
O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you, I will praise your name; for you have done wonderful things; your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
He that kills an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrifices a lamb, as if he breaks a dog's neck; he that offers a grain offering, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burns incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Though you offer me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fatted beasts.
But if you had known what this means, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the guiltless.
But go and learn what that means, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
And Samuel 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 hearken than the fat of rams.