Psalms 50:8
Not for thy sacrifices do I reprove thee, Yea, thy burnt-offerings [Are] before Me continually.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
7Hear, O My people, and I speak, O Israel, and I testify against thee, God, thy God [am] I.
9I take not from thy house a bullock, From thy folds he goats.
Cross References
Psalms 40:6Sacrifice and present Thou hast not desired, Ears Thou hast prepared for me, Burnt and sin-offering Thou hast not asked.
Isaiah 1:11'Why to Me the abundance of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah, I have been satiated [with] burnt-offerings of rams, And fat of fatlings; And blood of bullocks, and lambs, And he-goats I have not desired.
Hosea 6:6For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above 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 →