For thou desirest not sacrifice ... — On the words rendered in this verse “sacrifice” and “burnt-offering,” see the notes at Isaiah…

Sacrifice. —The rabbinical commentators on this verse represent the penitence of David as having taken the place of the <…

O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall show forth thy praise. For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not…

For thou wilt not accept a sacrifice. By this language, he expresses his confidence of obtaining pardon, although he brought nothing to Go…

For you desire not sacrifice
Legal sacrifice; for there was no sacrifice appointed under the law for murder and adul…

Those who are thoroughly convinced of their misery and danger by sin would spare no cost to obtain its remission. But as they cannot make satisfact…

1. In the preceding psalms of this group of ten, the psalmist seemed to discu matters that pertain to the state of the kingdom, whose glory …