11 translations · Hebrew
Hosea 6:6
For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
Hosea 6:6 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
- KJV King James Version
- For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
- ASV American Standard Version
- For I desire goodness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, || And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings.
- FBV Free Bible Version
- I want your true love, not your sacrifices; I want you to know me, not your burnt offerings.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings.
- DBY Darby Translation
- For I delight in loving-kindness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.
The Hebrew words
Each word of the Hebrew text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| כִּ֛י | kî | For | H3588 כִּי for |
| חֶ֥סֶד | ḥe·seḏ | mercy | H2617 חֶ֫סֶד kindness |
| חָפַ֖צְתִּי | ḥā·p̄aṣ·tî | I desire | H2654 חָפֵץ to delight in |
| וְלֹא־ | wə·lō- | not | H3808 לֹא not |
| זָ֑בַח | zā·ḇaḥ | sacrifice | H2077 זֶ֫בַח sacrifice |
| וְדַ֥עַת | wə·ḏa·‘aṯ | and the knowledge | H1847 דַּ֫עַת knowledge |
| אֱלֹהִ֖ים | ’ĕ·lō·hîm | of God | H430 אֱלֹהִים God |
| מֵעֹלֽוֹת׃ | mê·‘ō·lō·wṯ | rather than burnt offerings | H5930 עֹלָה burnt offering |
Related verses
- Matthew 9:13
But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
- Matthew 12:7
But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you wouldn’t have condemned the guiltless.
- Proverbs 21:3
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.
- 1 Samuel 15:22
Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
- Amos 5:21
I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies.
- Ecclesiastes 5:1
Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.
- Isaiah 1:11
“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
- Jeremiah 22:16
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; so it was well, then. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.
- Matthew 5:7
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
- Daniel 4:27
Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
4 “Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.
5 Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the prophets; I killed them with the words of my mouth. Your judgments are like a flash of lightning.
6 For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
7 But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me, there.
8 Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; it is stained with blood.
Read all of Hosea 6 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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