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Psalms 40:6

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¶ Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

Sacrifice {H2077} and offering {H4503} thou didst not desire {H2654}{H8804)}; mine ears {H241} hast thou opened {H3738}{H8804)}: burnt offering {H5930} and sin offering {H2401} hast thou not required {H7592}{H8804)}.

Sacrifices and grain offerings you don't want; burnt offerings and sin offerings you don't demand. Instead, you have given me open ears;

Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require.

Sacrifice and offering thou hast no delight in; Mine ears hast thou opened: Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not required.

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Cross-References

  • Isaiah 1:11 (23 votes)

    To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith 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 he goats.

  • Hebrews 10:5 (23 votes)

    Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

  • Hebrews 10:12 (23 votes)

    But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

  • 1 Samuel 15:22 (20 votes)

    And Samuel said, Hath 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.

  • Psalms 51:16 (16 votes)

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

  • Hosea 6:6 (11 votes)

    For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

  • Matthew 12:7 (8 votes)

    But if ye had known what [this] meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.