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16For thou desirest{H8799)} not sacrifice; else would I give{H8799)} it: thou delightest{H8799)} not in burnt offering.
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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.
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: …
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.
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-19)I. David prays against the guilt of sin, and prays for the grace of God, enforcing both petitions from a plea taken from the glory of God, which he promises with thankfulness to show forth. 1. He prays against the guilt of sin, that he might be delivered from that, and promises that then he would praise God, Ps. 51:14. The particular sin he prays against is blood-guiltiness, the sin he had now bee…
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