Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Psalms 50:9 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 9. 9I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
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Quick Meaning
Psalm 50:9: The speaker's “I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he…” contributes testimony, resolve, or self-address to “God summons worshipers to covenant accountability.”
The God of Zion summons covenant partners to trial
This verse is one part of that explanation in Psalms 50:1–23. The complete section carries the connected meaning and how it should shape life.
Read It With
- Psalms 50:1–23
Read Psalms 50:9 with 50:1–23. Read alone, “I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats…” could lose the communal voice, the parallel line or movement it develops, and the psalm's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Within Psalms 50:1–23, the communal voice carries the movement “God summons worshipers to covenant accountability” as part of “God summons worshipers to covenant accountability.” Its prophetic-liturgy form and poetic parallelism hold the petitions, images, memories, or praise together before any single line is applied.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Psalms 50:1–23 opens Psalm 50 with “The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun…” and establishes the communal voice and “God summons worshipers to covenant accountability” movement before later lines develop or answer it. Within that relationship, Psalm 50:9 voices testimony, resolve, or self-address in “I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of…,” preserving the poem's individual or communal speaker.
What Remains True
Because this verse serves “God summons worshipers to covenant accountability,” its enduring claim is proportionate: Praise and prayer become truthful when they attend to people harmed by predatory power and pursue protection, generosity, and fair judgment. Psalm 50:9 voices testimony, resolve, or self-address in “I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of…,” preserving the poem's individual or communal speaker. The local movement is “God summons worshipers to covenant accountability.” The unit's reviewed limit is: Sacrifice is criticized when detached from gratitude and justice; the psalm is not anti-Jewish and cannot be used to claim that Christianity replaced Israel.
How It Can Shape Life
- Start with the line's work inside “God summons worshipers to covenant accountability”—Psalm 50:9 voices testimony, resolve, or self-address in “I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of…,” preserving the poem's individual or communal speaker. Then let “I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats…” test worship and public claims by their effect on vulnerable people; correct one practice that hides or compounds harm.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read Psalms 50:1–23 — God summons worshipers to covenant accountabilitySources used for this Verse Lens
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These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Psalms 50:1–23, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Psalms
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ps.xml, OSIS 50:1–23
Open the fixed Hebrew Psalms file ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible Notes: Psalms 1-150
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, current official online edition
Supports: Verse-level controls for poetic syntax, imagery, older KJV language, textual issues, headings, and alternatives in Psalms 50:1–23.
Exact location: Official NET Bible Psalm 50 HTML, translator, textual, and study notes attached to Psalms 50:1–23
Open the official NET Psalms notes ↗