Psalms 50:16
Free me from blood, O God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue will extol your justice.
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In Context
15I will teach the unjust your ways, and the impious will be converted to you.
17O Lord, you will open my lips, and my mouth will announce your praise.
Cross References
Isaiah 1:11The multitude of your sacrifices, what is that to me, says the Lord? I am full. I do not desire holocausts of rams, nor the fat of fatlings, nor the blood of calves and of lambs and of he-goats.
Isaiah 48:1Listen to these things, O house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and who went forth from the waters of Judah. You swear by the name of the Lord and you call to mind the God of Israel, but not in truth, and not in justice.
Isaiah 55:6Seek the Lord, while he is able to be found. Call upon him, while he is near.
Jeremiah 7:4Do not choose to trust in lying words, saying: ‘This is the temple of the Lord! The temple of the Lord! The temple of the Lord!’
Ezekiel 20:37And I will subject you to my scepter, and I will lead you into the bonds of the covenant.
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 →