Psalm 51:17
Modern Translations
New International Version
My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.

New Living Translation
The sacrifice you desire is a broken spirit. You will not reject a broken and repentant heart, O God.

English Standard Version
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

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

New American Standard Bible
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, God, You will not despise.

NASB 1995
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.

NASB 1977
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise.

Amplified Bible
My [only] sacrifice [acceptable] to God is a broken spirit; A broken and contrite heart [broken with sorrow for sin, thoroughly penitent], such, O God, You will not despise.

Christian Standard Bible
The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit. You will not despise a broken and humbled heart, God.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit. God, You will not despise a broken and humbled heart.

Contemporary English Version
The way to please you is to be truly sorry deep in our hearts. This is the kind of sacrifice you won't refuse.

Good News Translation
My sacrifice is a humble spirit, O God; you will not reject a humble and repentant heart.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit. O God, you do not despise a broken and sorrowful heart.

International Standard Version
True sacrifice to God is a broken spirit. A broken and chastened heart, God, you will not despise.

NET Bible
The sacrifices God desires are a humble spirit--O God, a humble and repentant heart you will not reject.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

New King James Version
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart— These, O God, You will not despise.

King James 2000 Bible
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

New Heart English Bible
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

World English Bible
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

American King James Version
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

American Standard Version
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: A broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

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

Darby Bible Translation
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

English Revised Version
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Webster's Bible Translation
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
The sacrifices of God are a contrite spirit: a contrite and a broken heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Sacrifices for God is a mortified spirite: O Lorde thou wylt not despise a mortified and an humble heart.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
The sacrifice of God is a troubled sprete, a broken and a cotrite hert (o God) shalt thou not despise.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
The sacrifices of God [are] a broken spirit, "" A heart broken and bruised, O God, "" You do not despise.

Young's Literal Translation
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A heart broken and bruised, O God, Thou dost not despise.

Smith's Literal Translation
The sacrifices of God a spirit being broken: a heart being broken and crushed, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
A sacrifice to God is an afflicted spirit: a contrite and humbled heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Catholic Public Domain Version
A crushed spirit is a sacrifice to God. A contrite and humbled heart, O God, you will not spurn.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
The sacrifices of God are a humble spirit; God does not reject a broken heart.

Lamsa Bible
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, Thou wilt not despise.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Sacrifice to God is a broken spirit: a broken and humbled heart God will not despise.
















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