15. Lord, open my lips. My mouth shall declare your praise.
16. For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
17. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
18. Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.
19. Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar.