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The Book of Psalms, Chapter 50, Verse 17

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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?
King James Version
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
American Standard Version
Seeing thou hatest instruction, And castest my words behind thee?
New English Translation
For you hate instruction and reject my words.
World English Bible
since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
18
When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
19
Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
20
Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
21
These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether [such an one] as thyself: [but] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.
22
Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear [you] in pieces, and [there be] none to deliver.
23
Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth [his] conversation [aright] will I shew the salvation of God.
1
To the chief Musician, [A Psalm] of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
2
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
3
For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin [is] ever before me.
4
Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done [this] evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, [and] be clear when thou judgest.