Psalm 50:17 “For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.”

Psalm 50:17

For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

World English Bible

since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

American Standard Version

Seeing that thou hatest instruction, And castest my words behind thee?

Geneva Bible 1599

Seeing thou hatest to bee reformed, and hast cast my wordes behinde thee?

Darby Translation

Seeing thou hast hated correction and hast cast my words behind thee?

Young's Literal Translation

Yea, thou hast hated instruction, And dost cast My words behind thee.

Bible in Basic English

Seeing that you have no desire for my teaching, turning your back on my words.

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Cross references

“hatest”

Proverbs 12:1 2 Thessalonians 2:10–12 Proverbs 1:7 Romans 1:28 Proverbs 8:36 John 3:20

Proverbs 12:1 · BSB

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.

2 Thessalonians 2:10–12 · BSB

and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.

Proverbs 1:7 · BSB

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

Romans 1:28 · BSB

Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

Proverbs 8:36 · BSB

But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”

John 3:20 · BSB

Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

“castest”

Nehemiah 9:26 Jeremiah 8:9 Jeremiah 18:12 Isaiah 5:23 Jeremiah 36:23–32

Nehemiah 9:26 · BSB

But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.

Jeremiah 8:9 · BSB

The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?

Jeremiah 18:12 · BSB

But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”

Isaiah 5:23 · BSB

who acquit the guilty for a bribe and deprive the innocent of justice.

Jeremiah 36:23–32 · BSB

And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire.

Also

1 Kings 14:9

1 Kings 14:9 · BSB

You have done more evil than all who came before you. You have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me, and you have flung Me behind your back.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?

18When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.

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