66:13 I will enter 1 your temple with burnt sacrifices;
I will fulfill the vows I made to you,
4:5 Offer the prescribed sacrifices 2
and trust in the Lord! 3
50:8 I am not condemning 4 you because of your sacrifices,
or because of your burnt sacrifices that you continually offer me. 5
51:19 Then you will accept 6 the proper sacrifices, burnt sacrifices and whole offerings;
then bulls will be sacrificed 7 on your altar. 8
1 sn Here the psalmist switches to the singular; he speaks as the representative of the nation.
2 tn Or “proper, right.” The phrase also occurs in Deut 33:19 and Ps 51:19.
3 sn Trust in the
4 tn Or “rebuking.”
5 tn Heb “and your burnt sacrifices before me continually.”
6 tn Or “desire, take delight in.”
7 tn Heb “then they will offer up bulls.” The third plural subject is indefinite.
8 sn Verses 18-19 appear to reflect the exilic period, when the city’s walls lay in ruins and the sacrificial system had been disrupted.