Psalms 50:17
O Lord, you will open my lips, and my mouth will announce your praise.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
In Context
16Free me from blood, O God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue will extol your justice.
Cross References
1 Kings 14:9Instead, you have worked evil beyond all those who were before you. And you have made for yourself strange gods and molten images, so that you provoke me to anger. And you have cast me behind your back.
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The foolish despise wisdom as well as doctrine.
Proverbs 1:29For they held hatred for discipline, and they would not accept the fear of the Lord;
Proverbs 8:36But he who sins against me will wound his own soul. All who hate me love death.”
Proverbs 15:10Doctrine is evil to those who abandon the way of life. Whoever hates correction shall die.
Jeremiah 8:9The wise men have been confounded; they were terrified and captured. For they cast aside the word of the Lord, and there is no wisdom in them.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 50:17-23
The Character of the Wicked. 16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? 17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. 18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. 19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. 20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son. 21 These things hast thou done,… Read the whole commentary →