Psalm 50:16
Berean Standard Bible (BSB)
To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?
In context
14 Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.
15 Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
16 To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?
17 For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.
18 When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.
Psalm 50:16 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?
- KJV King James Version
- 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?
- WEB World English Bible
- But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
- ASV American Standard Version
- But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, And that thou hast taken my covenant in thy mouth,
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee — to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?
- DBY Darby Translation
- But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant into thy mouth,
- WBS Webster Bible
- But to the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?