Psalms 40:6 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 40:6

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

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

3 voices

Hilary of Poitiers

HOMILY ON PSALM 53(54).13 (367)

[Christ] offered himself to the death of the accursed that he might break the curse of the Law, offering himself voluntarily a victim to God the Father, in order that by means of a voluntary victim the curse that attended the discontinuance of the regular victim might be removed. Now of this sacrifice mention is made in another passage of the psalms: "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body have you prepared for me"; that is, by offering to God the Father, who refused the legal sacrifices, the acceptable offering of the body that he received.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Sacrifice - These and the following words, may in an improper sense belong to the time of David; when God might be said, not to desire or require legal sacrifices comparatively.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Treasury of David, Vol. 2 (1870)

Here we enter upon one of the most wonderful passages in the whole of the Old Testament, a passage in which the incarnate Son of God is seen not through a glass darkly, but as it were face to face. Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire. In themselves considered, and for their own sakes, the Lord saw nothing satisfactory in the various offerings of the ceremonial law.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
זֶ֤בַח	Ze.vach	sacrifice	H2077 →
וּמִנְחָ֨ה׀	u.min.Chah	and offering	H4503 →
לֹֽא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
חָפַ֗צְתָּ	cha.Fatz.ta	you desired	H2654 →
אָ֭זְנַיִם	'A.ze.na.yim	ears	H241 →
כָּרִ֣יתָ	ka.Ri.ta	you dug	H3738 →
לִּ֑י	Li	for me
עוֹלָ֥ה	o.Lah	burnt offering	H5930 →
וַ֝חֲטָאָ֗ה	va.cha.ta.'Ah	and sin offering	H2401 →
לֹ֣א	lo'	not	H3808 →
שָׁאָֽלְתָּ׃	sha.'A.le.ta	you asked for	H7592 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Samuel 15:22
But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of…
leads to
- Hosea 6:6
  For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Proverbs 21:3
  To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Psalms 51:16–17
  For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings.
- Amos 5:21–24
  “I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
- Mark 12:33
  and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, which is more important than all burnt offerings and…
Through
Hosea 6:6
For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
leads to
- 1 Samuel 15:22
  But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of…
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Matthew 9:13
  But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
- Amos 5:21
  “I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

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Where the connections lead

04Related verses

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06About Psalms

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Psalms