You do not delight in sacrifice and offering;
you open my ears to listen.[a]
You do not ask for a whole burnt offering or a sin offering.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 40:6 Lit you hollow out ears for me

Sacrifice and offering you did not desire—(A)
    but my ears you have opened[a](B)
    burnt offerings(C) and sin offerings[b] you did not require.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 40:6 Hebrew; some Septuagint manuscripts but a body you have prepared for me
  2. Psalm 40:6 Or purification offerings

11 “What are all your sacrifices to me?”
asks the Lord.
“I have had enough of burnt offerings and rams
and the fat of well-fed cattle;
I have no desire for the blood of bulls,
lambs, or male goats.(A)

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11 “The multitude of your sacrifices—
    what are they to me?” says the Lord.
“I have more than enough of burnt offerings,
    of rams and the fat of fattened animals;(A)
I have no pleasure(B)
    in the blood of bulls(C) and lambs and goats.(D)

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23 You have not brought me your sheep for burnt offerings
or honored me with your sacrifices.(A)
I have not burdened you with offerings
or wearied you with incense.[a]

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  1. 43:23 I.e., with demands for offerings and incense

23 You have not brought me sheep for burnt offerings,(A)
    nor honored(B) me with your sacrifices.(C)
I have not burdened(D) you with grain offerings
    nor wearied you with demands(E) for incense.(F)

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One person slaughters an ox, another kills a person;
one person sacrifices a lamb, another breaks a dog’s neck;
one person offers a grain offering, another offers pig’s blood;
one person offers incense, another praises an idol—
all these have chosen their ways
and delight in their abhorrent practices.(A)

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But whoever sacrifices a bull(A)
    is like one who kills a person,
and whoever offers a lamb
    is like one who breaks a dog’s neck;
whoever makes a grain offering
    is like one who presents pig’s(B) blood,
and whoever burns memorial incense(C)
    is like one who worships an idol.
They have chosen their own ways,(D)
    and they delight in their abominations;(E)

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They will not pour out
their wine offerings to the Lord,(A)
and their sacrifices will not please him.
Their food will be like the bread of mourners;
all who eat it become defiled.(B)
For their bread will be for their appetites alone;
it will not enter the house of the Lord.

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They will not pour out wine offerings(A) to the Lord,
    nor will their sacrifices please(B) him.
Such sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners;(C)
    all who eat them will be unclean.(D)
This food will be for themselves;
    it will not come into the temple of the Lord.(E)

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21 I hate, I despise, your feasts!(A)
I can’t stand the stench
of your solemn assemblies.(B)

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21 “I hate,(A) I despise your religious festivals;(B)
    your assemblies(C) are a stench to me.

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What should I bring before the Lord(A)
when I come to bow before God on high?
Should I come before him with burnt offerings,(B)
with year-old calves?

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With what shall I come before(A) the Lord
    and bow down before the exalted God?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
    with calves a year old?(B)

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10 “I wish one of you would shut the temple doors,(A) so that you would no longer kindle a useless fire on my altar!(B) I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord of Armies, “and I will accept(C) no offering from your hands.(D)

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10 “Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors,(A) so that you would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased(B) with you,” says the Lord Almighty, “and I will accept(C) no offering(D) from your hands.

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