Psalm 40:6 - Tree of Life Version

⁶ Many things You have done, Adonai my God —Your plans for us are wonderful— there is none to be compared to You! If I were to speak and tell of them, they would be too many to count!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ 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

⁶ 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)

⁶ 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

⁶ 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

⁶ My enemies have spoken evils against me. When will he die and his name perish?

Psalm 40:6 Tagairtí Cros

Job 33:16

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

Job 5:9

Who does great things beyond comprehension, wonders without number.

Psalm 139:17

How precious are Your thoughts, O God! How great is the sum of them!

Psalm 139:18

Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand! When I awake, I am still with You.

Psalm 50:8

I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, for your burnt offerings are continually before Me.

Psalm 51:16

Deliver me from bloodguilt, O God— God of my salvation. Then my tongue will sing for joy of Your righteousness.

Psalm 71:15

My mouth will recount Your justice and Your salvation all day, though I do not know the sum of them.

Exodus 21:6

then his master is to bring him to God, then take him to a door or to a doorpost. His master is to pierce his ear through with an awl, and he will serve him forever.

Isaiah 1:11

“For what is it to Me— the multitude of your sacrifices?” says Adonai. “I am full of burnt offerings of rams and fat of fed animals. I have no delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs or he-goats.

Isaiah 25:1

Adonai, You are my God, I will exalt You, I will praise Your Name, for You have done wonderful things, plans of old with steadfast faithfulness.

Isaiah 66:3

One who kills an ox is like one who kills a man; one who sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; one who offers a grain offering is like one who offers swine’s blood; one who burns incense is like one who blesses an idol. They have chosen their own ways, so their soul delights in their abominations.

Hosea 6:6

For I delight in loyalty and not sacrifice, knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Amos 5:22

Even if you offer me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them, nor will I look at peace offerings of your fattened animals.

Matthew 12:7

If you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you wouldn’t have condemned the innocent.

Matthew 9:13

Now go and learn what this means: ‘Mercy I desire, and not sacrifice.’ For I didn’t come to call the righteous, but the sinful.”

1 Samuel 15:22

Samuel said: “Does Adonai delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of Adonai? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, to pay heed than the fat of rams.