Christian Standard Bible
Psalms 50:17
17You hate instruction and fling 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 on me in a day of trouble; I will rescue you, and you will honor me.” 16But God says to the wicked: “What right do you have to recite my statutes and to take my covenant on your lips? You hate instruction and fling my words behind you. 18When you see a thief, you make friends with him, and you associate with adulterers. 19You unleash your mouth for evil and harness your tongue for deceit.
Read all of Psalms 50Psalms 50:17 word by word
וְ֭אַתָּה שָׂנֵ֣אתָ מוּסָ֑ר וַתַּשְׁלֵ֖ךְ דְּבָרַ֣י אַחֲרֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 50:17
- Proverbs 1:7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and discipline.
- Proverbs 5:12and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and how my heart despised correction.
- Proverbs 8:36but the one who misses me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”
- Proverbs 12:1Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but one who hates correction is stupid.
- John 3:20For everyone who does evil hates the light and avoids it, so that his deeds may not be exposed.
- Romans 1:28And because they did not think it worthwhile to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a corrupt mind so that they do what is not right.
- Romans 2:21you then, who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach, “You must not steal” — do you steal?
- 2 Thessalonians 2:10and with every wicked deception among those who are perishing. They perish because they did not accept the love of the truth and so be saved.
- 2 Timothy 4:3For the time will come when people will not tolerate sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, will multiply teachers for themselves because they have an itch to hear what they want to hear.
- Nehemiah 9:26But they were disobedient and rebelled against you. They flung your law behind their backs and killed your prophets who warned them in order to turn them back 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 snared. They have rejected the word of the Lord, so what wisdom do they really have?
- Jeremiah 18:12But they will say, ‘It’s hopeless. We will continue to follow our plans, and each of us will continue to act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
- Jeremiah 36:23As soon as Jehudi would read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut the scroll with a scribe’s knife and throw the columns into the fire in the hearth until the entire scroll was consumed by the fire in the hearth.
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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