Psalms 50:9
I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
In Context
8I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
10For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.
Cross References
Psalms 40:7Then I said, “Behold, I have come. It is written about me in the book in the scroll.
Isaiah 43:23You have not brought me any of your sheep for burnt offerings, neither have you honoured me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense.
Acts 17:25He isn’t served by men’s hands, as though he needed anything, seeing 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 →