Psalms 50:9
Not a bullock will I take from your house, nor male goats out of your folds;
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
In Context
8Not for your sacrifices will I reprove you your burnt-offerings are ever before me
10for all beasts of the forest are mine, and the kine on a thousand hills.
Cross References
Psalms 40:7Then said I, “Here I am, as the roll of the book has enjoined.
Acts 17:25neither do human hands minister to his wants, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives, to all, life, and breath, and all things.
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 →