King James Version
Psalms 50:16 in the King James Version says “But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in t...” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 50 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?”
Psalms 50:16 · KJV
Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. hast: Heb. thy portion was with
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“God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
“What hast thou to do to declare”
H5608properly, to score with a mark as a tally or record, i.e., (by implication) to inscribe, and also to enumerate; intensively, to recount, i.e., celebra
“my statutes”
H2706an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)
“or that thou shouldest take”
H5375to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“in thy mouth”
H6310the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with prepos
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