Psalms 50:8
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices; and thy burnt offerings are continually before me.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
7Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, even thy God.
9I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds.
Cross References
Psalms 40:6Sacrifice and offering thou hast no delight in; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.
Isaiah 1:11To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-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 →