Then I will teach transgressors your ways,
and sinners will return to you.
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God,
O God of my salvation,
and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
O Lord, open my lips,
and my mouth will declare your praise.
For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;
you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;
build up the walls of Jerusalem;
then will you delight in right sacrifices,
in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings;
then bulls will be offered on your altar.
Comment: If God answers the prayer of David, and continues as his helper David promise a number of things.
1, He will teach transgressors (which we all are!) God’s ways, effectively (some will repent). 2. He will clearly and loudly speak publicly of God’s true goodness. 3. He will have a personal attitude of praise and worship in private with God, 4. He will realize that the required heart-state in sacrificing is the broken spirit of repentance and attitude.
The reminder of the Psalm almost seems as if the private dealing of David with God causes the whole congregation listening or chanting as the psalm is repeated, to plead with God to deal with them. Then the action of killing bulls will become true sacrificial worship rather than cold ritualistic obedience.
Prayer: I humbly bow in Your Presence, O God.
As I read it! 