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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.
- 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. When I rescue you, you will honor Me.” 16But to the wicked, God says: “What are you doing, reciting My laws and taking 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 your portion is with adulterers. 19You have unleashed your mouth for evil and harnessed your tongue for 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 Adonai is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
- Proverbs 5:12and you will say, “How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned reproof!
- Proverbs 8:36But whoever fails to find me harms his life— all who hate me love death.”
- Proverbs 12:1Whoever loves knowledge loves correction, but whoever hates reproof is stupid.
- John 3:20For everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.
- Romans 1:28And just as they did not see fit to recognize God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what is not fitting.
- Romans 2:21you then who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach not to steal, do you steal?
- 2 Thessalonians 2:10and with every kind of wicked deception toward those who are perishing. They perish because they did not accept the love of the truth so as to be saved.
- 2 Timothy 4:3For the time will come when they will not put up with sound instruction, but they will pile up for themselves teachers in keeping with their own desires, to have their ears tickled.
- Nehemiah 9:26“Nonetheless they became contentious and rebelled against You. They cast Your Torah behind their back. They killed Your prophets who warned them to return to You; they committed appalling blasphemies.
- Isaiah 5:23who justify the wicked for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of justice!
- Jeremiah 8:9The wise men will be put to shame— shattered, trapped. Look! They have rejected Adonai’s word, so what wisdom do they have?
- Jeremiah 18:12But they say: ‘It’s hopeless! So we will walk after our own plans, and each of us will act in the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
- Jeremiah 36:23Now as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, he cut it with the scribe’s knife and tossed it into the fire that was in the fireplace, until the whole megillah was consumed in the fire in the fireplace.
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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