Quotes About Sacrifice

For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.

Then You will delight in righteous sacrifices, in whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on Your altar.

Freely I will sacrifice to You; I will praise Your name, O LORD, for it is good.

Your vows are upon me, O God; I will render thank offerings to You.

Because Your loving devotion is better than life, my lips will glorify You.

I will enter Your house with burnt offerings; I will fulfill my vows to You—

I will offer You fatlings as burnt offerings, with the fragrant smoke of rams; I will offer bulls and goats. Selah

For I have endured scorn for Your sake, and shame has covered my face.

because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.

I wept and fasted, but it brought me reproach.

I made sackcloth my clothing, and I was sport to them.

They poisoned my food with gall and gave me vinegar to quench my thirst.

And this will please the LORD more than an ox, more than a bull with horns and hooves.

He will redeem them from oppression and violence, for their blood is precious in his sight.

and smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks.

They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.

His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.

They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.

They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.

For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His name; bring an offering and enter His courts.

Then He struck all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of all their vigor.

They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox.