Psalm 51:17 - English Standard Version 2016 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. Matoleo zaidiKing 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 penitent, and you humbled yourself before the Lord, when you heard how I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, declares the Lord.
And let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, and tell of his deeds in songs of joy!
For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and he has not hidden his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him.
Their calyxes and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole of it was a single piece of hammered work of pure gold.
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.
Kill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but touch no one on whom is the mark. And begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the house.
“I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies.
And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
I have received full payment, and more. I am well supplied, having received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent, a fragrant offering, a sacrifice acceptable and pleasing to God.
Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.
you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.