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Psalms 50:8

In 11 translations

BSB
I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.
KJV
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
WEB
I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
ASV
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices; And thy burnt-offerings are continually before me.
LSV
I do not reprove you for your sacrifices, || Indeed, your burnt-offerings || [Are] continually before Me.
YLT
Not for thy sacrifices do I reprove thee, Yea, thy burnt-offerings [Are] before Me continually.
DBY
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt-offerings, continually before me;
DRC49:8
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt offerings are always in my sight.
GNV
I wil not reproue thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt offerings, that haue not bene continually before me.
JPS
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices; and thy burnt-offerings are continually before Me.
LXXE49:8
I will not reprove thee on account of thy sacrifices; for thy whole-burnt-offerings are before me continually.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
לֹ֣א עַל־זְ֭בָחֶיךָ אוֹכִיחֶ֑ךָ וְעוֹלֹתֶ֖יךָ לְנֶגְדִּ֣י תָמִֽיד׃
LXX-Br49:8
Οὐκ ἐπὶ ταῖς θυσίαις σου ἐλέγξω σε, τὰ δὲ ὁλοκαυτώματά σου ἐνώπιόν μου ἐστὶ διαπαντός.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Hosea 6:6For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
  • Hebrews 10:4–10because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You prepared for Me. In burnt…
  • Isaiah 1:11–31“What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. When you come…
  • Psalms 40:6–8Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require. Then I said, “Here I am, I have come— it is written about me in the scroll: I delight to do…
  • Psalms 51:16For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings.
  • Jeremiah 7:21–23This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves! For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command…

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