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Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, And put your trust in the Lord.
Psalms 4:5 · New King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB Offer the sacrifices of righteousness. Put your trust in Yahweh.
  • KJV Offer the sacrifices of righteousness, and put your trust in the LORD.
  • BSB Offer the sacrifices of the righteous and 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 13:15–16Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.
  • Ps 37:3Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.
  • Ps 51:19Then you will delight in the sacrifices of righteousness, in burnt offerings and in whole burnt offerings. Then they will offer bulls on your altar.
  • 1 Pet 4:19Therefore let them also who suffer according to the will of God in doing good entrust their souls to him, as to a faithful Creator.
  • Ps 62:8Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.
  • Deut 33:19They will call the peoples to the mountain. There they will offer sacrifices of righteousness, for they will draw out the abundance of the seas, the hidden treasures of the sand.”
  • Isa 1:11–18“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
  • Matt 5:23“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,
  • Ps 50:14Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.
  • Ps 84:11–12For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
  • Mal 1:8When you offer the blind for sacrifice, isn’t that evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, isn’t that evil? Present it now to your governor! Will he be pleased with you? Or will he accept your person?” says Yahweh of Armies.
  • Isa 61:8“For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
  • Isa 50:10Who among you fears Yahweh, and obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in Yahweh’s name, and rely on his God.
  • Mal 1:11–14For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.
  • Ps 26:1By David. Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.
  • 2 Sam 15:12Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.
  • Isa 26:3–4You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.
  • Ps 2:12Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge 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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