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16 (A)For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;
    you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are (B)a broken spirit;
    a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
18 (C)Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;
    (D)build up the walls of Jerusalem;

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16 You do not delight in sacrifice,(A) or I would bring it;
    you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.
17 My sacrifice,(B) O God, is[a] a broken spirit;
    a broken and contrite heart(C)
    you, God, will not despise.

18 May it please you to prosper Zion,(D)
    to build up the walls of Jerusalem.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 51:17 Or The sacrifices of God are