Berean Standard Bible
Psalms 50:17
17For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.
Psalms 50:17 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
- New International Version (NIV)You hate my instruction and cast my words behind you.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Seeing you hate instruction And cast My words behind you?
Context of Psalms 50:17
15Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.” 16To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips? For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you. 18When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers. 19You unleash your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit.
Read all of Psalms 50Psalms 50:17 word by word
וְ֭אַתָּה שָׂנֵ֣אתָ מוּסָ֑ר וַתַּשְׁלֵ֖ךְ דְּבָרַ֣י אַחֲרֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 50:17
- Proverbs 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
- Proverbs 5:12and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
- Proverbs 8:36But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”
- Proverbs 12:1Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.
- John 3:20Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
- Romans 1:28Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
- Romans 2:21you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal?
- 2 Thessalonians 2:10and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.
- 2 Timothy 4:3For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires.
- Nehemiah 9:26But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.
- Isaiah 5:23who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.
- Jeremiah 8:9The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?
- Jeremiah 18:12But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
- Jeremiah 36:23And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire.
Commentaries on Psalms 50:17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17Seeing thou hatest instruction - All these rejected the counsel of God against themselves; and refused to receive the instructions of Christ.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17Seeing thou hatest instruction - That is, He is unwilling himself to be taught. He will not learn the true nature of religion, and yet he presumes to instruct others. Compare the notes at Romans 2:21. And castest my words behind thee - He treated them with contempt, or as unworthy of attention. He did not regard them as worthy of being “retained,” but threw them contemptuously away.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 16-23Verses 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 their sins in order, sins of…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 17My instruction … My words: The wicked may observe rituals, but they reject more important matters such as justice, mercy, and faithfulness (compare Matthew 23:23–24).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 16-2016-20. 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.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 50
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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