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Psalms Chapter 51 verse 16 Holy Bible

ASV Psalms 51:16

For thou delightest not in sacrifice; else would I give it: Thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering.
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BBE Psalms 51:16

You have no desire for an offering or I would give it; you have no delight in burned offerings.
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DARBY Psalms 51:16

For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering.
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KJV Psalms 51:16

For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
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WBT Psalms 51:16

Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
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WEB Psalms 51:16

For you don't delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
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YLT Psalms 51:16

For Thou desirest not sacrifice, or I give `it', Burnt-offering Thou acceptest not.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 16. - For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it. If there had been any sacrifices which God desired or required for such offences as adultery and murder, David would have willingly offered them. But there were none. As Hammond observes, "The Mosaical Law allows no reconciliation, no sacrifice, for such sins." Thou delightest not in burnt offering. In the mere act of sacrifice - the untimely slaying of his own creatures - God could at no time have had any pleasure. His satisfaction could only arise from the spirit in which sacrifices were offered - the gratitude, devotion, self-renunciation, obedience, of those who approached him with them (comp. Psalm 40:6; Psalm 50:8-13; Isaiah 1:11-17, etc.).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(16) Sacrifice.--The rabbinical commentators on this verse represent the penitence of David as having taken the place of the sin-offering prescribed by the Law. In the mouth of an individual, language with such an intention would not have been possible. To the nation exiled and deprived of the legal rites, and by that very deprivation compelled to look beyond their outward form to their inner spirit, the words are most appropriate.