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Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.
Psalms 4:5 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. Put your trust in Yahweh.
  • BSB Offer the sacrifices of the righteous and trust in the LORD.
  • NKJV Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, And put your trust in the Lord.
  • NASB Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, And trust in the Lord.
  • NLT Offer sacrifices in the right spirit, and trust the Lord.

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Quick answer

David urges right sacrifices and trust in the Lord. True worship joins righteous offerings with genuine faith.

Overview

'Sacrifices of righteousness' are offerings made in sincerity and obedience, not empty ritual. The call to 'put your trust in Yahweh' shows that acceptable worship flows from faith. Ultimately such trust rests in Christ, whose perfect sacrifice makes our worship pleasing to God (Hebrews 13:15).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 18

  • Heb 13:15–16By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
  • Ps 37:3Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
  • Ps 51:19Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.
  • 1 Pet 4:19Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
  • Ps 62:8Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
  • Deut 33:19They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.
  • Isa 1:11–18To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
  • Matt 5:23Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;
  • Ps 50:14Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
  • Ps 84:11–12For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
  • Mal 1:8And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the LORD of hosts.
  • Isa 61:8For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
  • Isa 50:10Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
  • Mal 1:11–14For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.
  • Ps 26:1Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.
  • 2 Sam 15:12And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he offered sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.
  • Isa 26:3–4Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
  • Ps 2:12Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 4:5 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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