New American Standard Bible 1995
Psalms 50:17
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 shall rescue you, and you will honor Me.” 16But to the wicked God says, “What right have you to tell of My statutes And to take My covenant in your mouth? For you hate discipline, And you cast My words behind you. 18When you see a thief, you are pleased with him, And you associate with adulterers. 19You let your mouth loose in 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
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 have hated instruction! And my heart spurned reproof!
- Proverbs 8:36But he who sins against me injures himself; All those 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 evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
- Romans 1:28And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper,
- Romans 2:21you, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that one shall not steal, do you steal?
- 2 Thessalonians 2:10and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved.
- 2 Timothy 4:3For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires,
- Nehemiah 9:26“But they became disobedient and rebelled against You, And cast Your law behind their backs And killed Your prophets who had admonished them So that they might return to You, And they committed great blasphemies.
- Isaiah 5:23Who justify the wicked for a bribe, And take away the rights of the ones who are in the right!
- Jeremiah 8:9The wise men are put to shame, They are dismayed and caught; Behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord, And what kind of wisdom do they have?
- Jeremiah 18:12But they will say, ‘It’s hopeless! For we are going to follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’
- Jeremiah 36:23When Jehudi had read three or four columns, the king cut it with a scribe’s knife and threw it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.
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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