Psalms 50:17
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
Psalms 50:17 in other translations
| BSB | For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you. |
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| WEB | since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you? |
| ASV | Seeing that thou hatest instruction, And castest my words behind thee? |
| YLT | Yea, thou hast hated instruction, And dost cast My words behind thee. |
| DARBY | Seeing thou hast hated correction and hast cast my words behind thee? |
| BBE | Seeing that you have no desire for my teaching, turning your back on my words. |
| Webster | Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. |
What does Psalms 50:17 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 50:16-20
16-20. the wicked--that is, the formalists, as now exposed, and who lead vicious lives (compare Ro 2:21, 23). They are unworthy to use even the words of God's law. Their hypocrisy and vice are exposed by illustrations from sins against the seventh, eighth, and ninth commandments.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 50:16-23
Hypocrisy is wickedness, which God will judge. And it is too common, for those who declare the Lord's statutes to others, to live in disobedience to them themselves. This delusion arises from the abuse of God's long-suffering, and a wilful mistake of his character and the intention of his gospel. The sins of sinners will be fully proved on them in the judgment of the great day. The day is coming when God will set…
Psalms 50:17 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 50:17
- Nehemiah 9:26
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
- Proverbs 12:1
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
- 2 Timothy 4:3-4
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
- Proverbs 1:28-29
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord:
- 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
- 1 Kings 14:9
But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:
- Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
- Romans 2:21-23
Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal? Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege? Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
- Jeremiah 8:9
The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them?
- Romans 1:28
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
- Proverbs 8:36
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
- Proverbs 5:12-13
And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
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Context
- Psalms 50:16
But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
- Psalms 50:17
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
- Psalms 50:18
When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
Psalms 50:17 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Pues que tú aborreces el castigo, y echas á tu espalda mis palabras? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Toi qui hais la correction, et qui as jeté mes paroles derrière toi. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Du hast ja die Zucht gehaßt und hinter dich geworfen meine Worte. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Domine, labia mea aperies, et os meum annuntiabit laudem tuam. |