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Sacrifice and offering you didn`t desire. My ears have you opened: Burnt offering and sin offering have you not required.
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Obedience Over Ritual
Commentators unanimously agree that this verse emphasizes a core biblical principle: God desires a listening and obedient heart more than external religious ceremonies. Scholars like Calvin and Barnes explain that the animal sacrifices of the Old Testament were not what God ultimately wanted for their own sake. They were valuable only as they pointed to a deeper, spiritual reality of faith and heartfelt devotion.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Sacrifice and offering – The first of the words used here—זבח zebach—properly means a bloody offering; the other—מנחה<…
19th Century
Anglican
Mine ears hast thou opened. —Literally, Ears you have dug for me, which can hardly mean anything but “You have g…
Baptist
Sacrifice and offering you did not desire;
The blood of all the bullocks, rams, and lambs offered in sacrifice, had possessed no re…
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16th Century
Protestant
In sacrifice and oblation you have not taken pleasure. Here David offers not only the sacrifice of praise, or, as the prophet Hosea calls …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Sacrifice and offering you did not desire These were desired, willed, and appointed by God, and that very early, eve…
The psalmist foretells that work of wonder: redemption by our Lord Jesus Christ.
The Substance, who is Christ, must come. He must bring that…
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13th Century
Catholic
In the preceding psalms, the psalmist asked for divine help against the malice of the wicked and showed his intention to be cautious. Her…
