Psalm 50

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:22

Now consider this - Ye have forgotten your God, and sinned against him. He has marked down all your iniquities, and has them in order to exhibit against you. Beware, therefore, lest he tear you to pieces, when there is none to deliver; for none can deliver you but the Christ you reject. And how can ye escape, if ye neglect so great a salvation? read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:23

Whoso offereth praise - These are the very same words as those in Psalm 50:14 , תודה זבח ; and should be read the same way independently of the points, zebach todah, "sacrifice the thank-offering." Jesus is the great eucharistic sacrifice; offer him up to God in your faith and prayers. By this sacrifice is God glorified, for in him is God well pleased; and it was by the grace or good pleasure of God that he tasted death for every man. Ordereth his conversation - דרך שם sam derech ... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:1

Verse 1 1.The God of gods, even Jehovah, (241) hath spoken The inscription of this psalm bears the name of Asaph; but whether he was the author of it, or merely received it as chief singer from the hand of David, cannot be known. This, however, is a matter of little consequence. The opinion has been very generally entertained, that the psalm points to the period of the Church’s renovation, and that the design of the prophet is to apprise the Jews of the coming abrogation of their figurative... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:3

Verse 3 3.Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence (243) He repeats that God would come, in order to confirm his doctrine, and more effectually arouse them. He would come, and should not always keep silence, lest they should be encouraged to presume upon his forbearance. Two reasons may be assigned why the prophet calls God our God He may be considered as setting himself, and the comparatively small number of the true fearers of the Lord, in opposition to the hypocrites whom he abhors,... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:4

Verse 4 4.He shall call to the heavens from above It is plain from this verse for what purpose God, as he had already announced, would call upon the earth. This was to witness the settlement of his controversy with his own people the Jews, against whom judgment was to be pronounced, not in the ordinary manner as by his prophets, but with great solemnity before the whole world. The prophet warns the hypocritical that they must prepare to be driven from their hiding-place, that their cause would... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:6

Verse 6 6.And the heavens shall declare his righteousness. The Jews were vain enough to imagine that their idle and fantastic service was the perfection of righteousness; but they are here warned by the prophet, that God, who had seemed to connive at their folly, was about to reveal his own righteousness from heaven, and expose their miserable devices. “Think you,” as if he had said, “that God can take delight in the mockery of your deluded services? Though you send up the smoke of them to... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:7

Verse 7 7.Hear, O my people! and I will speak. Hitherto the prophet has spoken as the herald of God, throwing out several expressions designed to alarm the minds of those whom he addressed. But from this to the end of the psalm God himself is introduced as the speaker; and to show the importance of the subject, he uses additional terms to awaken attention, calling them his own people, that he might challenge the higher authority to his words, and intimating, that the following address is not of... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:8

Verse 8 8I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, etc. God now proceeds to state the charge which he adduced against them. He declares, that he attached no value whatsoever to sacrifices in themselves considered. Not that he asserts this rite of the Jews to have been vain and useless, for in that case it never would have been instituted by God; but there is this difference betwixt religious exercises and others, that they can only meet the approbation of God when performed in their true... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:9

Verse 9 9I will take no calf out thy house Two reasons are given in this and the succeeding verses to prove that he cannot set any value upon sacrifices. The first is, that supposing him to depend upon these, he needs not to be indebted for them to man, having all the fullness of the earth at his command; and the second, that he requires neither food nor drink as we do for the support of our infirm natures. Upon the first of these he insists in the ninth and three following verses, where he... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:14

Verse 14 These verses cast light upon the preceding context. Had it been stated in unqualified terms that sacrifices were of no value, we might have been perplexed to know why in that case they were instituted by God; but the difficulty disappears when we perceive that they are spoken of only in comparison with the true worship of God. From this we infer, that when properly observed, they were far from incurring divine condemnation. There is in all men by nature a strong and ineffaceable... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:22

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:23

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:1

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:3

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:4

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:6

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:7

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:8

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:9

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:14

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