English Standard Version
Psalms 50:17
17For you hate discipline, and you 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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Seeing you hate instruction And cast My words behind you?
- New Living Translation (NLT)For you refuse my discipline and treat my words like trash.
Context of Psalms 50:17
15and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me." 16But to the wicked God says: "What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips? For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you. 18If you see a thief, you are pleased with him, and you keep company with adulterers. 19"You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
Read all of Psalms 50Psalms 50:17 word by word
וְ֭אַתָּה שָׂנֵ֣אתָ מוּסָ֑ר וַתַּשְׁלֵ֖ךְ דְּבָרַ֣י אַחֲרֶֽיךָ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 50:17
- Proverbs 1:7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
- Proverbs 5:12and you say, "How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
- Proverbs 8:36but he who fails to find me injures himself; all who hate me love death."
- Proverbs 12:1Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
- John 3:20For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.
- Romans 1:28And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
- Romans 2:21you then who teach others, do you not teach yourself? While you preach against stealing, do you steal?
- 2 Thessalonians 2:10and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.
- 2 Timothy 4:3For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,
- Nehemiah 9:26"Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you and cast your law behind their back and killed your prophets, who had warned them in order to turn them back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.
- Isaiah 5:23who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!
- Jeremiah 8:9The wise men shall be put to shame; they shall be dismayed and taken; behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord, so what wisdom is in them?
- Jeremiah 18:12"But they say, 'That is in vain! We will follow our own plans, and will every one act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.'
- Jeremiah 36:23As Jehudi read three or four columns, the king would cut them off with a knife and throw them into the fire in the fire pot, until the entire scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the fire pot.
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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