Proverbs 15:8

Bishops' Bible (1568)

The Lorde abhorreth the sacrifice of the vngodly: but the prayer of the righteous is acceptable vnto hym.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

זֶ֣בַח רְ֭שָׁעִים תּוֹעֲבַ֣ת יְהוָ֑ה וּתְפִלַּ֖ת יְשָׁרִ֣ים רְצוֹנֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

Zeḇaḥ rəšāʿîm tôʿăḇat YHWH ûtəp̄illat yəšārîm rəṣônô

Grammar Details

• *Zeḇaḥ*: noun, masculine singular construct - sacrifice of
• *rəšāʿîm*: adjective, masculine plural - wicked ones
• *tôʿăḇat*: noun, feminine singular construct - abomination of
• YHWH: proper noun - divine name
• *ûtəp̄illat*: conjunction + noun, feminine singular construct - but prayer of
• *yəšārîm*: adjective, masculine plural - upright ones
• *rəṣônô*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his delight/pleasure

Word Meanings

• *Zeḇaḥ rəšāʿîm*: sacrifice of wicked/offering of evil ones
• *tôʿăḇat YHWH*: abomination of YHWH/detestable to the LORD
• *ûtəp̄illat yəšārîm*: but prayer of upright/yet supplication of righteous
• *rəṣônô*: his delight/his pleasure/acceptable to him

Referenced Verses

• Prov 15:29 : 29 The Lorde is farre from the vngodly: but he heareth the prayer of the ryghteous.
• Prov 21:27 : 27 The sacrifice of the vngodly is abhomination: howe muche more when they offer the thing that is gotten with wickednesse?
• 1 Chr 29:17 : 17 I wot also my God that thou tryest the heartes, and hast pleasure in vnfaynednesse, & in the vnfaonednesse of myne heart I haue wyllingly offered al these thinges: And now haue I seene thy people which are founde here to offer vnto thee wyllyngly, and with gladnesse.
• Jer 6:20 : 20 Wherefore bryng ye me incense from Saba, and sweete smelling calamus from farre countreys? your burnt offeringes displease me, and I reioyce not in your sacrifices.
• Isa 1:10-15 : 10 Heare the worde of the Lord ye lordes of Sodoma, and hearken vnto the lawe of our God thou people of Gomorra. 11 Why offer ye so many sacrifices to me, wyll the Lorde say? I am full of the burnt offeringes of weathers, & of the fatnesse of fed beastes, I haue no pleasure in the blood of bullockes, lambes, and goates. 12 When ye come to appeare before me treadyng in my courtes, who hath required this at your handes? 13 Offer me no mo oblations, for it is but lost labour: incense is an abhominable thyng vnto me, I may not away with your newe moones, your sabbathes & solempne meetynges, your solempne assemblies are wicked. 14 I hate your newe moones and appoynted feastes euen from my very heart, they make me weery, I can not abyde them. 15 When you holde out your handes, I wyll turne myne eyes from you: and though ye make many prayers, yet I wyll heare nothyng at all, seyng your handes are full of blood.
• Isa 61:8 : 8 For I the Lorde whiche loue right and hate robberie (though it were offered me) shall make their workes full of faythfulnesse, and make an euerlasting couenaunt with them.
• Prov 28:9 : 9 He that turneth away his eare from hearing the lawe, his prayer shalbe abhominable.
• Jer 7:21-23 : 21 Thus saith the Lorde of hoastes the God of Israel: Heape vp your burnt offeringes with your sacrifices, and eate the fleshe. 22 For when I brought your fathers out of Egypt, I spake no worde vnto them of burnt offeringes and sacrifices: 23 But this I commaunded them, saying, Hearken and obay my voyce, and I shalbe your God, and ye shalbe my people, so that ye walke in al the wayes whiche I haue commaunded you, that ye may prosper.
• John 4:24 : 24 God is a spirite, and they that worshippe hym, must worshippe hym in spirite, and in the trueth.
• Eccl 5:1 : 1 When thou commest into the house of God, kepe thy foote and drawe nye, that God which is at hande may heare that thou geue not the offerynges of fooles: for they knowe naught but to do euyll.
• Isa 66:3 : 3 For who so slayeth an oxe for me, doth me so great dishonour as he that killeth a man: He that killeth a sheepe for me knetcheth a dogge: He that bryngeth me meate offerynges, offereth sivynes blood, who so maketh me a memorial of incense, prayseth the thyng that is vnryght: Yet take they such wayes in hande, and their soule delyghteth in these abhominations.
• Ps 17:1 : 1 A prayer of Dauid. Heare thou O God of iustice, be attentiue vnto my complaynt: geue eare vnto my prayer, not proceeding out of fayned lyppes.
• Song 2:14 : 14 O stande vp then and come my loue my beautifull, and come I say O my doue, out of the caues of the rockes, out of the holes of the wall, O let me see thy countenaunce and heare thy voyce: for sweete is thy voyce, and fayre is thy face.
• Amos 5:21-22 : 21 I hate, I abhorre your feast dayes, and I will not smell in your solemne assemblies. 22 Though ye offer me burnt offeringes, and meate offeringes, I will not accept them, neither will I regarde the peace offering of your fat beastes.