Psalms 50:7

Psa 50:7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I [am] God, [even] thy God.

Ver. 7. Hear, O my people, and I will speak, &c. ] What sweet and winning language is here for a preface! God’s proceedings against sinners, whom he might confound with his terrors, is with meekness and much mildness, Genesis 3:9 ; Genesis 3:11 ; Genesis 4:9 Matthew 22:11 ; Matthew 26:50 . Be we herein followers of God as dear children, Jos 7:19 Galatians 6:1 2 Timothy 2:19 .

O Israel, I will testify against thee ] i.e. I will expostulate with thee, and convince thee. This is a mercy which the Lord vouchsafed our first parents when they had sinned; the serpent he would not so much as examine, but doomed him presently.

I am God ] And should, therefore, have been better obeyed.

Even thy God ] And, therefore, thou of all others shouldest have had more care, and not have despited me with seeming honours by presenting me with outside services.