8 I will not reprove you for your sacrifices; yea, your burnt offerings are continually before Me;
Psalms 50:8 Cross References - LITV
Psalms 40:6-8
Psalms 51:16
16 For you do not desire sacrifice, or I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering.
Isaiah 1:11-31
11 What good to Me are your many sacrifices, says Jehovah? I am full of burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fattened cattle, and the blood of bulls; nor do I delight in the blood of lambs and he goats.
12 When you come to see My face, who has required this at your hand, to trample My courts?
13 Do not add to bringing vain sacrifice; its incense is an abomination to Me. I cannot endure the new moon and sabbath, the going to meeting, and the evil assembly.
14 My soul hates your new moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to Me. I am weary of bearing them .
15 And when you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you. Yea, when you multiply prayer, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash yourselves, purify yourselves. Put away the evil of your doings from My sight; stop doing evil.
17 Learn to do good, seek justice, reprove the oppressor, judge the orphan, strive for the widow.
18 Come now and let us reason together, says Jehovah: Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they are red as the crimson, they shall be like wool.
19 If you are willing and hear, you shall eat the good of the land.
20 But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Jehovah has spoken.
21 Oh how the faithful city has become a harlot! She was full of justice; righteousness lodged in it. But now, murderers!
22 Your silver has become dross; your wine is diluted with water.
23 Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe, and is pursuing rewards. They do not judge the orphan, nor does the cause of the widow come to them,
24 and says the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Alas! I will be eased of My foes, and avenge Myself of My enemies.
25 And I will return My hand on you, and refine your dross, as with lye, and take away all your alloy.
26 And I will return your judges as at the first; and your advisors, as at the beginning; then you shall be called the city of righteousness, a faithful town.
27 Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and her returning ones with righteousness.
28 And the ruin of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together. And those who forsake Jehovah shall be consumed.
29 For they shall be ashamed of the trees which you lusted after; and you shall be ashamed of the gardens that you have chosen.
30 For you shall be like a tree whose leaf fades, and like a garden that has no water in it.
31 And the strong shall be for tow, and his work for a spark; and they shall burn both together; and no one shall quench them .
Jeremiah 7:21-23
21 So says Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh.
22 For I did not speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out from the land of Egypt, concerning matters of burnt offerings and sacrifices.
23 But I commanded them this thing, saying, Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. Also, Walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, so that it may be well with you.
Hosea 6:6
6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Hebrews 10:4-10
4 for it is not possible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5 For this reason, coming into the world, He says, "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but You prepared a body for Me.
6 You did not delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices concerning sins."
7 "Then I said, Lo, I come, in the heading of the Book, it was written concerning Me, to do Your will, O God." LXX-Psa. 39:7 -9; MT-Psa. 40:6 -8
8 Above, saying, "You did not desire nor were pleased with sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and sacrifices concerning sins," (which are offered according to the Law),
9 then He said, "Lo, I come to do Your will, O God." He takes away the first in order that He may set up the second;
10 by which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.