Psalms 50:16
To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?
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15Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
17For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.
Cross References
Psalms 78:36But they deceived Him with their mouths, and lied to Him with their tongues.
Isaiah 1:11“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
Isaiah 48:1“Listen to this, O house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, who have descended from the line of Judah, who swear by the name of the LORD, who invoke the God of Israel—but not in truth or righteousness—
Isaiah 55:6Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
Jeremiah 7:4Do not trust in deceptive words, saying: ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’
Ezekiel 20:37I will make you pass under the rod and will bring you into the bond 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 →