I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices. Here God implies that Israel brought the sacrifices regularly enough; but what He complains of is the lack of inward service. In Psalms 50:9-12 God proceeds to show the grounds on which He esteemed the mere outward sacrifices as so secondary in importance. If He needed them, He would not need to apply to men, because all creation is His. In Psalms 50:13 it is added that Gods spiritual nature shows that "the flesh of bulls" could not give Him satisfaction.
Or thy burnt offerings, (to have been) continually before me - rather, as Septuagint and Vulgate, 'thy burnt offerings are continually before me.' The Hebrew for 'burnt offering' х `owlaah (H5930)], is literally an ascending, because the holocaust or burnt offering was raised up upon the altar, and wholly burnt there, and so ascended as smoke to heaven.