Psalms 50:8
I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
7“Hear, my people, and I will speak. Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
9I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.
Cross References
Psalms 40:6Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
Isaiah 1:11“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says the LORD. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
Hosea 6:6For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than 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 →