Psalms 50:8

Render with R.V.,

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices;

And thy burnt offerings are continually before me.

This rendering is grammatically preferable to that of R.V. marg. Nor for thy burnt offerings, which are&c., which gives substantially the same sense. God's indictment does not relate to sacrifice: the stated offerings are duly presented. Continuallyseems to allude to the -continual burnt offering," which was offered daily, morning and evening. See Numbers 28:3 ff.

9ff. The owner of the vast herds of animals which roam the forests and range over a thousand mountains is not like some earthly king who comes and takes the choicest of his subjects" possessions at his will (1 Samuel 8:16 f.). The phrase rendered upon a thousand hillsmay mean upon the mountains where thousands are. The construction in either case is peculiar, and it has been conjectured that we should read upon the mountains of God, as in Psalms 36:6; but the alteration is hardly necessary.