Psalms 50:8
Not, for thy sacrifices, will I reprove thee, Nor for thine ascending-offerings, before me continually:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
7Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will adjure thee, God, thine own God, I am:—
9I will not take out of thy house—a bullock, Nor out of thy folds—he-goats;
Cross References
Psalms 40:6Sacrifice and meal-offering, thou didst not delight in, Ears, didst thou pierce for me,—Ascending-sacrifice and sin-bearer, thou didst not ask:
Isaiah 1:11Of what use to me, is your multitude of sacrifices: Saith Yahweh: I am sated with ascending-offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts,—In the blood of bulls and young rams and he-goats, have I no pleasure.
Hosea 6:6For, lovingkindness, I desired, and not sacrifice,—and the knowledge of God, more than ascending-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 →