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New Living Translation

Psalms 50:8

I have no complaint about your sacrifices or the burnt offerings you constantly offer.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Offerings;   Scofield Reference Index - Judgments;   The Topic Concordance - Belonging;   Earth;   Reproof;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Burnt Offering, the;   Offerings;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Asaph;   Psalms, the Book of;   Sacrifice;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Worship;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Law;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Asaph;   English Versions;   Gift, Giving;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jonah;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Magnificat;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - God;   Psalms the book of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Sanctify;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Wild Beast;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Atonement;   God;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
I do not reprove you for your sacrifices,And your burnt offerings are continually before Me.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I do not reprove you for your sacrifices, And your burnt offerings are continually before Me.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I wyll not reproue thee because of thy sacrifices, or for thy burnt offerynges: [for that they be not] alway before me.
Darby Translation
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt-offerings, continually before me;
New King James Version
I will not rebuke you for your sacrifices Or your burnt offerings, Which are continually before Me.
Literal Translation
Not for your sacrifices do I reprove you; yea, your burnt offerings are continually before Me;
Easy-to-Read Version
The problem I have with you is not your sacrifices or the burnt offerings you bring to me everyday.
World English Bible
I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
King James Version (1611)
I will not reproue thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt offerings, to haue bene continually before me.
King James Version
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I reproue the not because of thy sacrifice, yi burntofferinges are allwaye before me.
Amplified Bible
"I do not reprove you for your sacrifices; Your burnt offerings are continually before Me.
American Standard Version
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices; And thy burnt-offerings are continually before me.
Bible in Basic English
I will not take up a cause against you because of your offerings, or because of your burned offerings, which are ever before me.
Update Bible Version
I will not reprove you for your sacrifices; And your burnt-offerings are continually before me.
Webster's Bible Translation
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt-offerings, [to have been] continually before me.
New English Translation
I am not condemning you because of your sacrifices, or because of your burnt sacrifices that you continually offer me.
Contemporary English Version
Although you offer sacrifices and always bring gifts,
Complete Jewish Bible
I am not rebuking you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are always before me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I wil not reproue thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt offerings, that haue not bene continually before me.
George Lamsa Translation
I reproved you not for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings; they are continually before me.
Hebrew Names Version
I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices; and thy burnt-offerings are continually before Me.
New Life Bible
I do not speak sharp words to you for your gifts given on an altar. And your burnt gifts are always before Me.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I will not reprove thee on account of thy sacrifices; for thy whole-burnt-offerings are before me continually.
English Revised Version
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices; and thy burnt offerings are continually before me.
Berean Standard Bible
I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.
New Revised Standard
Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are continually before me.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Not, for thy sacrifices, will I reprove thee, Nor for thine ascending-offerings, before me continually:
Douay-Rheims Bible
(49-8) I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt offerings are always in my sight.
Lexham English Bible
It is not concerning a lack of your sacrifices that I rebuke you, and your burnt offerings are before me continually.
English Standard Version
Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are continually before me.
New American Standard Bible
"I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, And your burnt offerings are continually before Me.
New Century Version
I do not scold you for your sacrifices. You always bring me your burnt offerings.
Good News Translation
I do not reprimand you because of your sacrifices and the burnt offerings you always bring me.
Christian Standard Bible®
I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices or for your burnt offerings, which are continually before Me.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
I schal not repreue thee in thi sacrifices; and thi brent sacrifices ben euere bifor me.
Young's Literal Translation
Not for thy sacrifices do I reprove thee, Yea, thy burnt-offerings [Are] before Me continually.
Revised Standard Version
I do not reprove you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are continually before me.

Contextual Overview

7 "O my people, listen as I speak. Here are my charges against you, O Israel: I am God, your God! 8 I have no complaint about your sacrifices or the burnt offerings you constantly offer. 9 But I do not need the bulls from your barns or the goats from your pens. 10 For all the animals of the forest are mine, and I own the cattle on a thousand hills. 11 I know every bird on the mountains, and all the animals of the field are mine. 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for all the world is mine and everything in it. 13 Do I eat the meat of bulls? Do I drink the blood of goats? 14 Make thankfulness your sacrifice to God, and keep the vows you made to the Most High. 15 Then call on me when you are in trouble, and I will rescue you, and you will give me glory."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 40:6-8, Psalms 51:16, Isaiah 1:11-31, Jeremiah 7:21-23, Hosea 6:6, Hebrews 10:4-10

Reciprocal: Exodus 29:18 - a burnt offering Numbers 7:27 - General Numbers 23:1 - seven altars Numbers 28:6 - a continual Numbers 29:17 - General 1 Samuel 13:13 - hast not kept 1 Samuel 15:22 - Hath the Lord Psalms 37:7 - fret Psalms 50:21 - will Proverbs 21:3 - General Proverbs 21:27 - sacrifice Ecclesiastes 5:1 - give Jeremiah 7:22 - nor Amos 5:22 - offer Mark 12:33 - is more Acts 17:25 - is Hebrews 10:5 - Sacrifice Hebrews 10:11 - which

Cross-References

Genesis 50:8
Joseph also took his entire household and his brothers and their households. But they left their little children and flocks and herds in the land of Goshen.
Genesis 50:9
A great number of chariots and charioteers accompanied Joseph.
Genesis 50:24
"Soon I will die," Joseph told his brothers, "but God will surely come to help you and lead you out of this land of Egypt. He will bring you back to the land he solemnly promised to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."
Exodus 10:26
All our livestock must go with us, too; not a hoof can be left behind. We must choose our sacrifices for the Lord our God from among these animals. And we won't know how we are to worship the Lord until we get there."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices,.... For the neglect of them; this they were not chargeable with; and had they omitted them, a charge would not have been brought against them on that account, since these were not what God commanded when he brought them out of Egypt, Jeremiah 7:22; and were now abrogated; and when they were in force, acts of mercy, kindness, and beneficence, were preferred unto them, Hosea 6:6;

or thy burnt offerings, [to have been] continually before me; or, "for thy burnt offerings [are] continually before me" u; so far were they from being reprovable for not bringing their sacrifices, that they were continually offering up before the Lord even multitudes of them, though to no purpose, being offered up without faith, and in hypocrisy; and could not take away sin, and make atonement for it; and besides, ought now to have ceased to be offered, Christ the great sacrifice being now offered up, as he was in the times to which this psalm belongs; see Isaiah 1:14; wherefore it follows:

u So Tigurine version, Vatablus, Piscator, Cocceius, and Ainsworth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt-offerings - On the words “sacrifices” and “burnt-offerings” here used, see the notes at Isaiah 1:11. The meaning is, “I do not reprove or rebuke you in respect to the withholding of sacrifices. I do not charge you with neglecting the offering of such sacrifices. I do not accuse the nation of indifference in regard to the external rites or duties of religion. It is not on this ground that you are to be blamed or condemned, for that duty is outwardly and publicly performed. I do not say that such offerings are wrong; I do not say that there has been any failure in the external duties of worship. The charge - the reproof - relates to other matters; to the want of a proper spirit, to the withholding of the heart, in connection with such offerings.”

To have been continually before me - The words “to have been” are inserted by the translators, and weaken the sense. The simple idea is, that their offerings “were” continually before him; that is, they were constantly made. He had no charge of neglect in this respect to bring against them. The insertion of the words “to have been” would seem to imply that though they had neglected this external rite, it was a matter of no consequence; whereas the simple meaning is, that they were “not” chargeable with this neglect, or that there was “no” cause of complaint on this point. It was on other grounds altogether that a charge was brought against them. It was, as the following verses show, because they supposed there was special “merit” in such offerings; because they supposed that they laid God under obligation by so constant and so expensive offerings, as if they did not already belong to him, or as if he needed them; and because, while they did this, they withheld the very offering which he required, and without which all other sacrifices would be vain and worthless - a sincere, humble, thankful heart.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 50:8. 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.


 
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