James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Psalms 50:3
THE SILENCE OF GOD‘Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence.… These things hast thou done, and I kept silence.’Psalms 50:3; Psalms 50:21These two sentences—occurring as they do in the same psalm—are startling and suggestive. I. The silence of God—what is it?—Look at His commands and threatenings, and at what He is doing, and you will see. His voice was heard on Sinai, saying, ‘Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh... read more
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Psalms 50:1-23
The singer addresses himself in the name of God to the whole earth, that it may hear and learn an important lesson. The call is made in the first verse. The final appeal is in verses Psalms 50:22-23. The lesson is that forgetfulness of God issues in gravest peril, while the remembrance which worships ensures the blessing of salvation. Between the call to attention and the final appeal the psalmist sings of the relation between God and His own (verses Psa 50:2-15 ), and then of the attitude of... read more