Psalms 50 · Verse 8

Psalms 50:8

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

Psalms 50:8 in other translations

BSBI do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.
WEBI don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
ASVI will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices; And thy burnt-offerings are continually before me.
YLTNot for thy sacrifices do I reprove thee, Yea, thy burnt-offerings Are before Me continually.
DARBYI will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt-offerings, continually before me;
BBEI will not take up a cause against you because of your offerings, or because of your burned offerings, which are ever before me.
WebsterI will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt-offerings, to have been continually before me.

What does Psalms 50:8 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 50:8-15
8-15. However scrupulous in external worship, it was offered as if they conferred an obligation in giving God His own, and with a degrading view of Him as needing it [Psa 50:9-13]. Reproving them for such foolish and blasphemous notions, He teaches them to offer, or literally, "sacrifice," thanksgiving, and pay, or perform, their vows--that is, to bring, with the external symbolical service, the homage of the heart, and faith, penitence, and love. To this is added an invitation to seek, and a promise to afford, all needed help in trouble.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 8 I will not reprove thee - I do not mean to find fault with you for not offering sacrifices; you have offered them, they have been continually before me: but you have not offered them in the proper way.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 50:7-15

To obey is better than sacrifice, and to love God and our neighbour better than all burnt-offerings. We are here warned not to rest in these performances. And let us beware of resting in any form. God demands the heart, and how can human inventions please him, when repentance, faith, and holiness are neglected? In the day of distress we must apply to the Lord by fervent prayer. Our troubles, though we see them…

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Psalms 50:8 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

לֹ֣אlo'notH3808
עַל\־'al-onH5921
זְ֭בָחֶיךָZe.va.chei.khasacrifices yourH2077
אוֹכִיחֶ֑ךָ'o.khi.Che.khaI rebuke youH3198
וְעוֹלֹתֶ֖יךָve.'o.lo.Tei.khaand burnt offerings yourH5930
לְנֶגְדִּ֣יle.neg.Di[are] to before meH5048
תָמִֽיד\׃ta.MidcontinuallyH8548

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 50:8

  • Hebrews 10:4-10

    For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. …

  • Hosea 6:6

    For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

  • Isaiah 1:11-31

    To 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. When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. …

  • Psalms 40:6-8

    Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

  • Psalms 51:16

    For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.

  • Jeremiah 7:21-23

    Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh. For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
40:6-8; 51:16; Isa 1:11-31; Jer 7:21-23; Ho 6:6; Heb 10:4-10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 50:7

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

  • Psalms 50:8

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

  • Psalms 50:9

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

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Psalms 50:8 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		No te reprenderé sobre tus sacrificios, ni por tus holocaustos, que delante de mí están siempre.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Je ne te reprendrai pas à cause de tes sacrifices ou de tes holocaustes, qui ont été continuellement devant moi.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Nicht wegen deiner Schlachtopfer tadle ich dich, und deine Brandopfer sind beständig vor mir.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Ecce enim veritatem dilexisti; incerta et occulta sapientiæ tuæ manifestasti mihi.