Psalms 50:1 - Exposition

The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken . A combination of three names of God—viz. El, Elohim, and Jehovah—only found here and in Joshua 22:22 . There it is translated "the Lord God of gods," which is a possible rendering. Separately, the three names seem to mean, "The Mighty One," "The Many in One" (Cheyne) or "The Three in One," and '"The Self-Existent One." He who is all these, the psalmist announces, "has spoken," and called (or, summoned ) the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof ; i.e. God has summoned all mankind to hear his judgment of his covenant people.