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Psalms 50:8 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me. "
Psalms 50:8
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6 The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.
7 “Hear, my people, and I will speak. Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
8 I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
9 I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.
10 For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.
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Psalms 50:1
"The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset."
Psalms 50:2
"Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out."
Psalms 50:3
"Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him."
Psalms 50:4
"He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:"
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Psalms 50:6
"The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah."
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