Psalm 50:12
“If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.”
KJV
Read in Psalm 50Meaning
If God were hungry he would not need to tell humanity, because the world and all its fullness belong to him; sacrifice is not food that sustains or manipulates God.
God wants grateful dependence, not transactional sacrifice
Psalm 50 is a covenant-liturgy and wisdom-like judgment psalm in which God summons heaven and earth, rejects any idea that sacrifice feeds or obligates him, calls for thanksgiving and trust, and exposes the contradiction between reciting covenant words and practicing theft, sexual betrayal, deceit, and slander.
Read carefully
If God were hungry he would not need to tell humanity, because the world and all its fullness belong to him; sacrifice is not food that sustains or manipulates God.
Reflection
If God were hungry he would not need to tell humanity, because the world and all its fullness belong to him; sacrifice is not food that sustains or manipulates God.