But you have done many great sins. Your sins are much worse than the sins of any person that ruled before you. You have quit following me. You made idols and other gods. This has made me very angry.
Psalm 50:17 - Easy To Read Version So why do you hate it when I correct you?\par Why do you ignore the things I say?\par Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Seeing thou hatest instruction, And castest my words behind thee. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Seeing that you hate instruction and correction and cast My words behind you [discarding them]? American Standard Version (1901) Seeing that thou hatest instruction, And castest my words behind thee? Common English Bible You hate discipline, and you toss my words behind your back. Catholic Public Domain Version O Lord, you will open my lips, and my mouth will announce your praise. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version O Lord, thou wilt open my lips: and my mouth shall declare thy praise. |
But you have done many great sins. Your sins are much worse than the sins of any person that ruled before you. You have quit following me. You made idols and other gods. This has made me very angry.
And then they turned against you!\par They threw away your teachings!\par They killed your prophets.\par Those prophets warned the people.\par They tried to bring them back to you.\par But our ancestors {\cf2\super [55]} did terrible things\par against you!\par
The first thing a person must learn is to respect and obey the Lord—that leads to true wisdom. But evil people hate discipline and true wisdom.
If a person wants to be wise, then he is not angry if someone tells him when he does wrong. The person who hates to be told that he is wrong is stupid.
If a person begins to live wrong, then he will be punished. And the person that hates to be corrected will be destroyed.
But the person who sins against me\par hurts himself.\par All people who hate me love death!”\par
And if you pay those people money, they will forgive a criminal. But they don’t allow good people to be judged fairly.
But the people of Judah will answer, ‘It will not do any good to try. We will continue to do what we want. Each of us is going to do the things his stubborn, evil heart wants.’”
Those ‘wise people’ refused to listen\par to the Lord’s teachings.\par So they are not really wise people at all.\par Those ‘wise people’ were trapped.\par They became shocked and ashamed.\par
If you refuse to obey my laws and commands, then you have broken my Agreement.
Every person that does evil hates the light. That person will not come to the light. Why? Because then the light will show all the bad things he has done.
People did not think it was important to have a true knowledge of God. So God left them and allowed those people to have their own worthless thinking. And so those people do the things that they should not do.