Psalms 50:8

50:7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

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I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

I will not reprove you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

50:9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.

What does Psalms 50:8 mean?

Psalms 50:8 is a verse in the book of Psalms, in the Old Testament. In the original Hebrew, key words include יָכַח (yâkach), זֶבַח (zebach), עֹלָה (ʻôlâh). It connects to 11 cross-referenced passages elsewhere in Scripture.

Hebrew interlinear

will

not

reproveיָכַחyâkach/yaw-kahh'/H3198to be right (i.e. correct); reciprocal, to argue; causatively, to decide, justify or convict

thee

for

thy

sacrificesזֶבַחzebach/zeh'-bakh/H2077properly, a slaughter, i.e. the flesh of an animal; by implication, a sacrifice (the victim or the act)

thy

burnt

offerings,עֹלָהʻôlâh/o-law'/H5930a step or (collectively, stairs, as ascending); usually a holocaust (as going up in smoke)

have

been

continuallyתָּמִידtâmîyd/taw-meed'/H8548properly, continuance (as indefinite extension); but used only (attributively as adjective) constant (or adverbially, constantly); ellipt. the regular (daily) sacrifice

before

me.

Commentary on Psalms 50:8

HENRY_FULL · Psalms 50:8

here strong and fervent; gracious hopes and fears, joys and sorrows, are here struggling, but the pleasing passion comes off a conqueror. Or we may take it for a conflict between sense and faith, sense objecting and faith answering. I. Faith begins with holy desires towards God and communion with him, ver. 1, 2 . II. Sense complains of the darkness and cloudiness of the present condition, aggravated by the remembrance of the former enjoyments, ver. 3, 4 . III. Faith silences the complaint with the assurance of a good issue at last, ver. 5 . IV. Sense renews its complaints of the present dark and melancholy state, ver. 6, 7 . V. Faith holds up the heart, notwithstanding, with hope that the day will dawn, ver. 8 . VI. Sense repeats its lamentations ( ver. 9, 10 ) and sighs out the same remonstrance it had before made of its grievances. VII. Faith gets the last word ( ver. 11 ), for the silencing of the complaints of sense, and, though it be almost the same with that ( ver. 5 ) yet now it prevails and carries the day. The title does not tell us who was the penman of this psalm, but most probably it was David, and we may conjecture that it was penned by him at a time when, either by Saul's persecution or Absalom's rebellion, he was driven from the sanctuary and cut off from the privilege of waiting upon God in public ordinances. The strain of it is much the same with 63, and therefore we may presume it was penned by the same hand and upon the same or a similar occasion. In singing it, if we be either in outward affliction or in inward distress, we may accommodate to ourselves the melancholy expressions we find here; if not, we must, in singing them, sympathize with those whose case they speak too plainly, and thank God it is not our own case; but those passages in it which express and excite holy desires towards God, and dependence on him, we must earnestly endeavour to bring our minds up to. Desiring Communion with God; Mourning for the Loss of Public Ordinances. 1 As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. 2 My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God? 3 My tears have been my me

Cross-references

Related passages from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Job 23:3

Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!

Psalms 27:4

One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple. the beauty: or, the delight

Psalms 36:8

They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. abundantly: Heb. watered

Psalms 36:9

For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

Psalms 63:1

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; thirsty: Heb. weary where: without water

Jeremiah 2:13

For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

Jeremiah 10:10

But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation. true: Heb. God of truth everlasting: Heb. king of eternity

John 5:26

For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;

John 7:37

In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.

1 Thessalonians 1:9

For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;

Revelation 22:1

And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.

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Verses like this

Other verses that share key original-language words with Psalms 50:8.

Exodus 10:25

And Moses said, Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice unto the LORD our God. us: Heb. into our hands

Exodus 18:12

And Jethro, Moses' father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses' father in law before God.

Exodus 24:5

And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.

Exodus 29:42

This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.

Leviticus 4:10

As it was taken off from the bullock of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of the burnt offering.

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What does Psalms 50:8 say?

Psalms 50:8 (King James Version) reads: "I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me."

Is Psalms 50:8 in the Old or New Testament?

Psalms 50:8 is in the Old Testament of the Bible, in the book of Psalms.

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