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G. Campbell Morgan

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

James Nisbet

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

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:1-6

God Calls On The Whole Earth To Witness His Coming To Judge His People (Psalms 50:1-6 ). This section can be divided up as follows: · Who it is Who is coming (Psalms 50:1). · Where He is coming from and how He is coming (Psalms 50:2). · The glory in which He is coming (Psalms 50:3). · The purpose of His coming (Psalms 50:4-6). Who It Is Who Is Coming (Psalms 50:1 ). Psalms 50:1 ‘The Mighty One, God, YHWH, He has spoken and called the earth, From the rising of the sun, To its going down.’... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:1-23

L. God Looks to Conduct rather than to Sacrifice.— For the attitude to sacrifice, cf. Psalms 40*. Psalms 50:1-Joshua : . The expected Theophany. Psalms 50:1 . Read mg. with LXX.— called the earth: since the calling occurs in Psalms 50:4, which is a more appropriate place, read “ the earth feared.” Psalms 50:5 . The LXX reads “ Gather his saints together unto him, those that have made his covenant with him by sacrifice.” The last words refer to Exodus 24:5 ff. For “ saints’ ( hasî dî m) ,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 50:2

The place where he was supposed to reside, and where he would now sit in judgment; or from whence he would come to a more public and conspicuous place, where all the world might see and hear the transactions. The perfection of beauty; the most beautiful and amiable place of the whole world, because of the presence, and worship, and blessing of God, which was there, and there only. God hath shined, i.e. hath appeared or manifested himself in a glorious manner, as judges do when they come to the... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 50:3

Our God: these words are used here, as they are also Hebrews 12:29, emphatically. The prophet speaks this in the person of the Israelites and worshippers of God, whereof he was one, and thereby takes off their fond pretence, as if because God was their God, in covenant with them, and nearly related to them by Abraham his friend for ever, he would bear with their miscarriages, and would not deal so severely with them as some fancied; which also was their conceit, Jeremiah 7:4, &c.; Matthew... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Psalms 50:1-23

INTRODUCTIONSuperscription. “A Psalm of Asaph.” Asaph was “a Levite, son of Berachiah, one of the leaders of David’s choir (1 Chronicles 6:39). Psalms 50, 73-83 are attributed to him, but probably all these, except 50, 73, and 77, are of later origin. He was in after times celebrated as a Seer as well as a musical composer, and was put on a par with David (2 Chronicles 29:30; Nehemiah 12:46). The office appears to have remained hereditary in his family, unless he was the founder of a school of... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Psalms 50:1-23

Psalms 50:1-23 Psalms 50:1-23 is divided into three categories. The first six verses deal with God who is speaking. In the Hebrew it begins, "El Elohim, Jehovah, hath spoken." God, singular; Gods, plural; and then the name Yahweh or Jehovah, hath spoken. "El Elohim," the El, God singular, is many times translated mighty, because it is that force concentrated, and thus, the thought of God as mighty. So it is translated,The mighty God, even Jehovah, hath spoken ( Psalms 50:1 ),God Gods, Elohim;... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 50:1-23

Asaph, to whom this psalm is inscribed, was a seer, as well as head of the singers. He was also the author of twelve psalms, extremely beautiful, and highly prophetic. He here declares that EL ELOHIM JEHOVAH hath spoken. The Latin reads, The God of gods, Jehovah hath spoken. All versions fall short of the original. The prophet speaks here like Enoch, like Joel, like Daniel, of the Lord’s coming to judge and to punish the apostate priests and rulers for rejecting Christ and the gospel; but... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 50:1-23

Psalms 50:1-23The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth, from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.The first of the Asaph psalmsThis, the first of the Asaph psalms, is separated from the other eleven (Psalms 73:1-28; Psalms 74:1-23; Psalms 75:1-10; Psalms 76:1-12; Psalms 77:1-20; Psalms 78:1-72; Psalms 79:1-13; Psalms 80:1-19; Psalms 81:1-16; Psalms 82:1-8; Psalms 83:1-18.) for reasons that do not appear. Probably they are no more recondite than the verbal... read more

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