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Psalm 51:19

Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar.

17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.
18Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.
19Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar.
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The repeated “Then” looks toward worship God delights in, following a plea for Jerusalem’s good and the confession that God does not despise a contrite heart.

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Where else Scripture says this

11 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 4:5Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. Put your trust in the LORD.Both passages name sacrifices of righteousness, and Psalm 4 joins that offering with trust in the LORD.
Hebrews 13:16But don’t forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.Both passages speak of sacrifices that please God; Hebrews names doing good and sharing as such sacrifices.
Ephesians 5:2Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.Both describe sacrifice offered to God with pleasure expressed through delight in the psalm and sweet fragrance in Ephesians.
Malachi 3:3and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to the LORD …Both passages connect offerings with righteousness; Malachi describes the purification of Levi’s sons before they offer them.
Deuteronomy 33:10They shall teach Jacob your ordinances, and Israel your law. They shall put incense before you, and whole burnt offering on your altar.Both passages name whole burnt offerings on God’s altar, sharing the concrete setting of Israel’s sacrificial worship.
Psalm 20:3remember all your offerings, and accept your burned sacrifice. Selah.Both passages express hope for God’s favorable reception of offerings, using the language of delight and acceptance.
Psalm 66:13–15I will come into your temple with burnt offerings. I will pay my vows to you,Both look ahead to bringing burnt offerings to God, with Psalm 66 also naming the payment of vows.
Romans 12:1Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.Both passages describe sacrifice acceptable to God; Romans speaks of presenting the body as a living sacrifice.
Psalm 118:27The LORD is God, and he has given us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords, even to the horns of the altar.Both passages connect sacrifice with the altar, describing worship through tangible offerings brought before God.
Deuteronomy 33:19They will call the peoples to the mountain. There they will offer sacrifices of righteousness, for they will draw out the abundance of the seas, the hidden …Both anticipate people offering sacrifices of righteousness, locating those offerings within the worship of a gathered people.
Malachi 3:4Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasant to the LORD as in the days of old and as in ancient years.Both look toward offerings pleasing to God, and both place that hope in the setting of Jerusalem.
Where this verse fits

Guilt and confession. praise and worship.

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Encouragement

A broken and contrite heart has a place in worship. In this prayer for Jerusalem, the hope is that God will delight in righteous offerings.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).