Psalm 51:16 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁶ Deliver me from bloodguilt, O God— God of my salvation. Then my tongue will sing for joy of Your righteousness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: Thou delightest not in burnt offering.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ 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)

¹⁶ For thou delightest not in sacrifice; else would I give it: Thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ You don’t want sacrifices. If I gave an entirely burned offering, you wouldn’t be pleased.

Psalm 51:16 Tagairtí Cros

2 Samuel 12:9

Why then have you despised the word of Adonai by doing such evil in My eyes? Uriah the Hittite you have struck down with the sword, and his wife you have taken to be your wife, and him you have slain with the sword of the children of Ammon

Psalm 40:6

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!

Psalm 50:8

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

Psalm 51:6

Against You, You only, have I sinned, and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You are just when You speak, and blameless when You judge.

Psalm 71:15

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

Exodus 21:14

If a man presumes to kill his neighbor with craftiness, you are to take him from My altar and put him to death.

Proverbs 15:8

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Adonai, but the prayer of the upright pleases him.

Proverbs 21:27

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination— how much more when he brings it with evil intent?

Jeremiah 7:27

“When you tell them all these things, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer you.

Hosea 6:6

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

Numbers 15:27

“If but one person should sin unintentionally, he is to bring a year-old female goat for a sin offering.

Numbers 35:31

“You are not to accept ransom for the life of a murderer. He deserves to die and he is to die.

Deuteronomy 22:22

“Suppose a man is found lying with a married woman. Then both of them are to die—the man who lay with the woman and the woman. So you are to purge the evil from Israel.

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.