The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
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Gill's Exposition
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit,.... That is humbled under a sense of sin; has true repentance for it; is smitten, wounded, and broken with it, by the word of God in the hand of the Spirit,…
Barnes' Notes
The sacrifices of God - The sacrifices which God desires and approves; the sacrifices without which no other offering would be acceptable. David felt that that which he here specified was what was…
I. David prays against the guilt of sin, and prays for the grace of God, enforcing both petitions from a plea taken from the glory of God, which he promises with thankfulness to show forth. 1. He…
Cambridge Bible
The sacrifices of God Such as He desires and approves.
A broken spiritand a contrite heartare those in which sorrow and affliction (Psa 51:51) have done their work, and the obstinacy of pride has been…
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