For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
⛓ Read Psalm 51 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The Psalm's claim that God does not delight in animal sacrifice but in 'a broken spirit' anticipates Paul's redefinition of true worship (logike latreia) as the offering of the whole self rather than the slain victim.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
A faint cousin-echo: David's penitential ‘you don't delight in sacrifice… you have no pleasure in burnt offering’ runs verbally parallel to Ps 40's and Hebrews' ‘you didn't desire… had no pleasure.’ Low volume and contested as a direct source, but the shared psalmic formula reinforces the thematic field of sacrifice displaced by the will of the heart.
Low confidence