Psalms 50:21

These you did, and I kept silent, || You have thought that I am like you, || I reprove you, and set in array before your eyes.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

In Context

20You sit, you speak against your brother, || You give slander against a son of your mother.

22Now understand this, || You who are forgetting God, || Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.

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Cross References

Exodus 3:14And God says to Moses, “I AM THAT WHICH I AM.” He also says, “Thus you say to the sons of Israel: I AM has sent me to you.”

Job 34:33Does He repay by you, that you have refused—That you choose, and not I? And what you have known, speak.

Psalms 50:8I do not reprove you for your sacrifices, || Indeed, your burnt-offerings || [Are] continually before Me.

Psalms 90:8You have set our iniquities before You, || Our hidden things at the light of Your face,

Psalms 109:1TO THE OVERSEER. A PSALM OF DAVID. O God of my praise, do not be silent,

Ecclesiastes 8:11Because sentence has not been done [on] an evil work speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of man is full within them to do evil.

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 →

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