Psalm 50:16 {49:16}
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But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth?

wicked

Isaiah 48:22 There is no peace to the wicked, saith the Lord.

Isaiah 55:6,7 Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near. . . .

Ezekiel 18:27 And when the wicked turneth himself away from his wickedness, which he hath wrought, and doeth judgment, and justice: he shall save his soul alive.

What

Proverbs 26:7 As a lame man hath fair legs in vain: so a parable is unseemly in the mouth of fools.

Isaiah 1:11-15 To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats. . . .

Isaiah 48:1,2 Hear ye these things, O house of Jacob, you that are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Juda, you who swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in justice. . . .

Isaiah 58:1-7 Cry, cease not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their wicked doings, and the house of Jacob their sins. . . .

Jeremiah 7:4-7 Trust not in lying words, saying: The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, it is the temple of the Lord. . . .

Matthew 7:3-5,22,23 And why seest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye; and seest not the beam that is in thy own eye? . . .

John 4:24 God is a spirit: and they that adore him must adore him in spirit and in truth.

Acts 19:13-16 Now some also of the Jewish exorcists, who went about, attempted to invoke over them that had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying: I conjure you by Jesus, whom Paul preacheth. . . .

Romans 2:17-24 But if thou art called a Jew and restest in the law and makest thy boast of God, . . .

1 Corinthians 9:27 But I chastise my body and bring it into subjection: lest perhaps, when I have preached to others, I myself should become a castaway.

2 Peter 2:15 Leaving the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam of Bosor who loved the wages of iniquity,

thou shouldest

Psalm 25:14 The Lord is a firmament to them that fear him: and his covenant shall be made manifest to them.

Psalm 78:36-38 And they loved him with their mouth: and with their tongue they lied unto him: . . .

Ezekiel 20:37,38 And I will make you subject to my sceptre, and will bring you into the bands of the covenant. . . .

Hebrews 8:9 Not according to the testament which I made to their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt: because they continued not in my testament: and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

Context
The Mighty One Calls
15And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. 16But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth?17Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee.…
Cross References
Psalm 94:20
Doth the seat of iniquity stick to thee, who framest labour in commandment?

Isaiah 29:13
And the Lord said: Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips glorify me, but their heart is far from me, and they have feared me with the commandment and doctrines of men:

Jeremiah 44:26
Therefore hear ye the word of the Lord, all Juda, you that dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold I have sworn by my great name, saith the Lord: that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Juda, in the land of Egypt, saying: The Lord God liveth.

Lexicon
To the wicked, however,
וְלָ֤רָשָׁ֨ע ׀ (wə·lā·rā·šā‘)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l, Article | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7563: Wrong, an, bad person

God
אֱלֹהִ֗ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

says,
אָ֘מַ֤ר (’ā·mar)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

“What right
מַה־ (mah-)
Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

have you
לְּ֭ךָ (lə·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

to recite
לְסַפֵּ֣ר (lə·sap·pêr)
Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 5608: To count, recount, relate

My statutes
חֻקָּ֑י (ḥuq·qāy)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 2706: Something prescribed or owed, a statute

and to bear
וַתִּשָּׂ֖א (wat·tiś·śā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5375: To lift, carry, take

My covenant
בְרִיתִ֣י (ḇə·rî·ṯî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1285: A covenant

on
עֲלֵי־ (‘ă·lê-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

your lips?
פִֽיךָ׃ (p̄î·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6310: The mouth, edge, portion, side, according to


Additional Translations
To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?But to the wicked God said, What have you to do to declare my statutes, or that you should take my covenant in your mouth?

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,

But to the sinner God has said, Why dost thou declare my ordinances, and take up my covenant in thy mouth?

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,

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?

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?

But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee -- to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?
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