Psalm 50:13
“Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?”
KJV
Read in Psalm 50Meaning
The rhetorical question about eating bulls and drinking goats’ blood exposes a transactional view of sacrifice, not every form of embodied worship or biblical sacrifice.
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
The rhetorical question about eating bulls and drinking goats’ blood exposes a transactional view of sacrifice, not every form of embodied worship or biblical sacrifice.
Reflection
The rhetorical question about eating bulls and drinking goats’ blood exposes a transactional view of sacrifice, not every form of embodied worship or biblical sacrifice.