“Then Shall the Offering of Judah and Jerusalem Be Pleasant Unto the Lord”

Bryan Richards

What will be the offering of Judah and Jerusalem? It will be that offering which they have not offered for so many generations—the offering of a broken heart and a contrite spirit. This is the sacrifice of righteousness for which the Lord has long awaited:

'For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.' (Ps 51:16-19)

The Psalmist refers to the latter-day Zion and Jerusalem, explaining, as we saw in the last verse, that the offering of a broken heart and a contrite spirit, or the sacrifices of righteousness, will be accompanied by the restitution of animal sacrifice, for then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

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