Psalms 50:18
For if you had desired sacrifice, I would certainly have given it, but with holocausts, you will not be delighted.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
In Context
17O Lord, you will open my lips, and my mouth will announce your praise.
19A crushed spirit is a sacrifice to God. A contrite and humbled heart, O God, you will not spurn.
Cross References
Leviticus 20:10If anyone will have committed sexual acts with the wife of another, or will have perpetrated adultery with his neighbor’s spouse, they shall die a death, both the adulterer and the adulteress.
Job 31:9If my heart has been deceived over a woman, or if I have waited in ambush at my friend’s door,
Proverbs 2:16So may you be rescued from the foreign woman, and from the outsider, who softens her speech,
Isaiah 5:23For you justify an impious man in exchange for bribes, and you carry away the justice of a just man from him.
Micah 7:3The evil of their hands, they call good. The leader is demanding, and the judge is yielding, and the great is speaking the desire of his soul, and they have confused it.
Romans 1:32And these, though they had known the justice of God, did not understand that those who act in such a manner are deserving of death, and not only those who do these things, but also those who consent to what is done.
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 →