Psalm 50:8 {49:8}
Good News Translation
I do not reprimand you because of your sacrifices and the burnt offerings you always bring me.

New Revised Standard Version
Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are continually before me.

Contemporary English Version
Although you offer sacrifices and always bring gifts,

New American Bible
Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you, your burnt offerings are always before me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt offerings are always in my sight.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt offerings are always in my sight.

Psalm 40:6-8 Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire; but thou hast pierced ears for me. Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not require: . . .

Psalm 51:16 For if thou hadst desired sacrifice, I would indeed have given it: with burnt offerings thou wilt not be delighted.

Isaiah 1:11 To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats.

Jeremiah 7:21-23 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat ye the flesh. . . .

Hosea 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.

Hebrews 10:4-10 For it is impossible that with the blood of oxen and goats sin should be taken away. . . .

Context
The Mighty One Calls
7Hear, O my people, and I will speak: O Israel, and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God. 8I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt offerings are always in my sight.9I will not take calves out of thy house: nor he goats out of thy flocks.…
Cross References
Numbers 7:45
An ox of the herd, and a ram, and a lamb of a year old for a holocaust:

Psalm 40:6
Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire; but thou hast pierced ears for me. Burnt offering and sin offering thou didst not require:

Psalm 50:5
Gather ye together his saints to him: who set his covenant before sacrifices.

Psalm 51:16
For if thou hadst desired sacrifice, I would indeed have given it: with burnt offerings thou wilt not be delighted.

Isaiah 1:11
To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats.

Hosea 6:6
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.

Psalm 50:7
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