Psalms 50:13
Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of goats?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
In Context
12If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
14Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High.
Cross References
Leviticus 7:12If the oblation be for thanksgiving, they shall offer leaves without leaven tempered with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and fine flour fried, and cakes tempered and mingled with oil:
Deuteronomy 33:19They shall call the people to the mountain: there shall they sacrifice the victims of justice. Who shall suck as milk the abundance of the sea, and the hidden treasures of the sands.
Psalms 69:32And it shall please God better than a young calf, that bringeth forth horns and hoofs.
Romans 12:1I BESEECH you therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing unto God, your reasonable service.
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 →