Why have you despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? you have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Psalm 51:16 - King James 2000 For you desire not sacrifice; else would I give it: you delight not in burnt offering. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: Thou delightest not in burnt offering. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) For thou delightest not in sacrifice; else would I give it: Thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering. Common English Bible You don’t want sacrifices. If I gave an entirely burned offering, you wouldn’t be pleased. |
Why have you despised the commandment of the LORD, to do evil in his sight? you have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; my ears have you opened: burnt offering and sin offering have you not required.
I will not reprove you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part you shall make me to know wisdom.
My mouth shall show forth your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for I know not the limits thereof.
But if a man comes presumptuously upon his neighbor, to slay him with guile; you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination: how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind?
Therefore you shall speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to you: you shall also call unto them; but they will not answer you.
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
And if any soul sins through ignorance, then he shall bring a female goat of the first year for a sin offering.
Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.
If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shall you put away evil from Israel.
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.