Psalms 50:8
Not for your sacrifices will I reprove you your burnt-offerings are ever before me
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
In Context
7“Hear, O my people, and I will speak, and protest to you, O Israel: I am the Lord, your God.
9Not a bullock will I take from your house, nor male goats out of your folds;
Cross References
Psalms 40:6In offerings bloody or bloodless you have no delight, but with open ears you have made me. Burnt-offering and offering for sin are not what you ask.
Hosea 6:6for it is love that I delight in and not sacrifice, and knowledge of God and not burnt offerings.
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 →