Psalm 50:1-23

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 50:1-6

It is probable that Asaph was not only the chief musician, who was to put a tune to this psalm, but that he was himself the penman of it; for we read that in Hezekiah's time they praised God in the words of David and of Asaph the seer, 2 Chron. 29:30. Here is, I. The court called, in the name of the King of kings (Ps. 50:2): The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken?El, Elohim, Jehovah, the God of infinite power justice and mercy, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. God is the Judge, the Son of God... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 50:7-15

God is here dealing with those that placed all their religion in the observances of the ceremonial law, and thought those sufficient. I. He lays down the original contract between him and Israel, in which they had avouched him to be their God, and he them to be his people, and so both parties were agreed (Ps. 50:7): Hear, O my people! and I will speak. Note, It is justly expected that whatever others doe, when he speaks, his people should give ear; who will, if they do not? And then we may... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 50:16-23

God, by the psalmist, having instructed his people in the right way of worshipping him and keeping up their communion with him, here directs his speech to the wicked, to hypocrites, whether they were such as professed the Jewish or the Christian religion: hypocrisy is wickedness for which God will judge. Observe here, I. The charge drawn up against them. 1. They are charged with invading and usurping the honours and privileges of religion (Ps. 50:16): What has thou to do, O wicked man! to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 50:1

The mighty God ,.... In the Hebrew text it is "El", "Elohim", which Jarchi renders the "God of gods"; that is, of angels, who are so called, Psalm 8:5 ; so Christ, who is God over all, is over them; he is their Creator, and the object of their worship, Hebrews 1:6 ; or of kings, princes, judges, and all civil magistrates, called gods, Psalm 82:1 ; and so Kimchi interprets the phrase here "Judge of judges". Christ is King of kings, and Lord of lords, by whom they reign and judge, and to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 50:2

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. Or "shall shine" F16 הומיע "emicabit", Tigurine version; "vel effulgebit", Vatablus; "illucescet", Amama, Grotius. ; the past for the future, as Kimchi observes; or "the perfection of the beauty of God hath shined out of Zion" F17 So De Dieu. ; that is, Christ; he is the perfection of beauty; he is fairer than the children of men; he is more glorious than the angels in heaven: as Mediator, he is full of grace and truth,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 50:3

Our God shall come ,.... That is, Christ, who is truly and properly God, and who was promised and expected as a divine Person; and which was necessary on account of the work he came about; and believers claim an interest in him as their God; and he is their God, in whom they trust, and whom they worship: and this coming of his is to be understood, not of his coming in the flesh; for though that was promised, believed, and prayed for, as these words are by some rendered, "may our God come" ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 50:4

He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth ,.... To hear what he shall say, when he will no longer keep silence; and to be witnesses of the justice of his proceedings; see Isaiah 1:2 . The Targum interprets this of the angels above on high, and of the righteous on the earth below; and so Aben Ezra, Kimchi, and Ben Melech, explain it of the angels of heaven, and of the inhabitants of the earth; that he may judge his people ; not that they, the heavens and the earth, the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 50:5

Gather my saints together unto me ,.... These words are spoken by Christ to the heavens and the earth; that is, to the angels, the ministers of the Gospel, to gather in, by the ministry of the word, his elect ones among the Gentiles; see Matthew 24:30 ; called his "saints", who had an interest in his favour and lovingkindness, and were sanctified or set apart for his service and glory; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice ; or, "who have made my covenant by, or on... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 50:6

And the heavens shall declare his righteousness ,.... That is, either the heavens shall bear witness to his justice and equity in judging his people; or the angels, the ministers of the Gospel, shall declare his justifying righteousness, which is revealed in it, to the saints and covenant ones they shall be a means of gathering in: or rather the justice of Christ in the destruction of the Jews shall be attested and applauded by angels and men, just as the righteousness of God in the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 50:7

Hear, O my people ,.... This is an address to the people of the Jews, whom God had chosen to be his people above all others, and who professed themselves to be his people; but now a "loammi", Hosea 1:9 , was about to be written upon them, being a people uncircumcised in heart and ears, refusing to hear the great Prophet of the church, him that spake from heaven; and I will speak : by way of accusation and charge, and in judgment against them for their sins and transgressions; O... read more

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