Psalm 69:31 {68:32}
Good News Translation
This will please the LORD more than offering him cattle, more than sacrificing a full-grown bull.

New Revised Standard Version
This will please the LORD more than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs.

Contemporary English Version
This will please the LORD better than offering an ox or a full-grown bull.

New American Bible
That will please the LORD more than oxen, more than bulls with horns and hooves:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And it shall please God better than a young calf, that bringeth forth horns and hoofs.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And it shall please God better than a young calf, that bringeth forth horns and hoofs.

also shall

Psalm 50:13,14,23 Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of goats? . . .

Hosea 14:2 Take with you words, and return to the Lord, and say to him: Take away all iniquity, and receive the good: and we will render the calves of our lips.

Ephesians 5:19,20 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual canticles, singing and making melody in your hearts to the Lord: . . .

Hebrews 13:15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise always to God, that is to say, the fruit of lips confessing to his name.

1 Peter 2:5 Be you also as living stones built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Context
The Waters Are Up to My Neck
30I will praise the name of God with a canticle: and I will magnify him with praise. 31And it shall please God better than a young calf, that bringeth forth horns and hoofs.32Let the poor see and rejoice: seek ye God, and your soul shall live.…
Cross References
Psalm 50:9
I will not take calves out of thy house: nor he goats out of thy flocks.

Psalm 50:13
Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of goats?

Psalm 50:14
Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High.

Psalm 51:16
For if thou hadst desired sacrifice, I would indeed have given it: with burnt offerings thou wilt not be delighted.

Psalm 69:30
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