For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

我喜爱良善，不喜爱祭祀；喜爱认识神，胜于燔祭。

我喜爱慈爱，不喜爱祭物；喜爱人认识上帝，胜于燔祭。

我喜爱慈爱，不喜爱祭物；喜爱人认识神，胜于燔祭。

我喜爱怜悯之心，而非祭物；我喜爱人认识我，胜于燔祭。

我喜爱怜恤，不喜爱祭祀；我喜爱人认识神的知识，胜过人献的燔祭。

我喜愛良善，不喜愛祭祀；喜愛認識神，勝於燔祭。

我喜愛慈愛，不喜愛祭物；喜愛人認識上帝，勝於燔祭。

我喜愛慈愛，不喜愛祭物；喜愛人認識神，勝於燔祭。

我喜愛憐憫之心，而非祭物；我喜愛人認識我，勝於燔祭。

我喜愛憐恤，不喜愛祭祀；我喜愛人認識神的知識，勝過人獻的燔祭。

因為我喜悅堅貞，不喜悅祭祀；我喜悅人認識上帝，勝於人獻全燔祭。

我欲矜恤、不欲祭祀、欲識上帝之知識、愈於燔祭、

我欲矜恤、不欲祭祀、寧崇我道、毋獻燔祭、

我所悅者、乃仁義、並非祭祀、識天主之道、勝於火焚祭、識天主之道勝於火焚祭或作識天主勝於獻火焚祭

For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.

I want mercy and not sacrifice. I want you to recognize me as God instead of bringing me burnt offerings.

For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

I want you to show love, not offer sacrifices. I want you to know me more than I want burnt offerings.

For I desire faithful love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

For I desire loyalty rather than sacrifice, And the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

For I desire mercy and not sacrifice, And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

For I desire goodness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt- offerings.

For I desire loyalty and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

For I delight in faithfulness, not simply in sacrifice; I delight in acknowledging God, not simply in whole burnt offerings.

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

But if ye had known what[ this] meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

But go ye and learn what[ that] meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

To what purpose[ is] the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

To do justice and judgment[ is] more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

And Samuel said, Hath the LORD[ as great] delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey[ is] better than sacrifice,[ and] to hearken than the fat of rams.

Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then[ it was] well[ with him: was] not this to know me? saith the LORD.

Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.

Blessed[ are] the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because[ there is] no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Wherewith shall I come before the LORD,[ and] bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?

For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings,[ to have been] continually before me.

[ Is] not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?