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Psalms 50:8

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

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

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…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

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 Isa 1:11. The meaning is, “I do not reprove or rebuke…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Psalms 50:7-15

God is here dealing with those that placed all their religion in the observances of the ceremonial law, and thought those sufficient.

I. He lays down the original contract between him and Israel, in…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Render with R.V.,

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices;

And thy burnt offerings are continually before me.

This rendering is grammatically preferable to that of R.V. marg. Nor for thy burnt…

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