¹⁵O Lord, open my lips,
   and my mouth will declare your praise.
¹⁶For you have no delight in sacrifice;
   if I were to give a burnt-offering, you would not be pleased.
¹⁷The sacrifice acceptable to God^* is a broken spirit;
   a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

¹⁸Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;
   rebuild the walls of Jerusalem,
¹⁹then you will delight in right sacrifices,
   in burnt-offerings and whole burnt-offerings;
   then bulls will be offered on your altar.