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Psalm 50:17

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

You refused correction and rejected my commands.

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“You have made me very angry by rejecting me and making idols out of gold. Jeroboam, you have done more evil things than any king before you.

In spite of this, they rebelled and disobeyed your laws. They killed your prophets, who warned them to turn back to you, and they cursed your name.

Respect and obey the LORD! This is the beginning of knowledge. Only a fool rejects wisdom and good advice.

To accept correction is wise, to reject it is stupid.

If you turn from the right way, you will be punished; if you refuse correction, you will die.

But if you don't find me, you hurt only yourself, and if you hate me, you are in love with death.

You accept bribes to let the guilty go free, and you cheat the innocent out of a fair trial.

But I know you won't listen. You might as well answer, “We don't care what you say. We have made plans to sin, and we are going to be stubborn and do what we want!”

Your wise men have rejected what I say, and so they have no wisdom. Now they will be trapped and put to shame; they won't know what to do.

People who do evil hate the light and won't come to the light, because it clearly shows what they have done.

Since these people refused even to think about God, he let their useless minds rule over them. That's why they do all sorts of indecent things.




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