Psalms 50:16
But unto the wicked God says, What have you to do to declare my statutes, or that you should take my covenant in your mouth?
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In Context
15And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.
17Seeing you hate instruction, and casts my words behind you.
Cross References
Psalms 78:36Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.
Isaiah 1:11To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? says 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.
Isaiah 48:1Hear all of you this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.
Isaiah 55:6Seek all of you the LORD while he may be found, call all of you upon him while he is near:
Jeremiah 7:4Trust all of you not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.
Ezekiel 20:37And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant:
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 →