Psalms 50:8
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, and thy burnt-offerings [being] continually before me.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
7Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify to thee, I am God, [even] thy God.
9I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds.
Cross References
Psalms 40:6Sacrifice and offering thou did not desire, but a body thou have prepared for me (LXX/NT). Whole burnt-offering and sacrifice for sin thou did not require.
Isaiah 1:11What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices? says LORD. I have had enough of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts. And I do not delight in the blood of bullocks or of lambs or of he-goats.
Hosea 6:6For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 50:8-16
The Inefficacy of Legal Sacrifices. 7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God. 8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. 9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. 10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. 11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. 12 If I were hungry, I would not… Read the whole commentary →