psalm-50:16,-psalm-50:18

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 50:15-21

This seems to be a solemn remonstrance and expostulation with the unbelieving and hypocritical Jews, who rested in the means, and totally overlooked and even despised the end: who, as our Lord told them in his days, tithed mint, anise, and cummin, but neglected the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith; Matthew 23:23 . The Apostle hath a similar address of charges on his countrymen, the Jews, Romans 2:17 , etc. read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Psalms 50:16

Blood, from death, which I have deserved. (St. Athanasius) --- That of Urias, and his companions, (Worthington) cries to heaven for vengeance, 2 Kings xi. 24. (Haydock) ---Hence the word sanguinibus, is used. (Berthier) --- Spare me, and my people. --- Justice, which has given place to mercy. (Calmet) --- The latter word is here used by Symmachus, and justice may have this meaning. (Theodoret) --- Sixtus V reads exaltabit, instead of exultabit, which Septuagint Greek: agalliasetai,... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:16-23

16-23 Hypocrisy is wickedness, which God will judge. And it is too common, for those who declare the Lord's statutes to others, to live in disobedience to them themselves. This delusion arises from the abuse of God's long-suffering, and a wilful mistake of his character and the intention of his gospel. The sins of sinners will be fully proved on them in the judgment of the great day. The day is coming when God will set their sins in order, sins of childhood and youth, of riper age and old age,... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Psalms 50:1-23

Of the True Service of God. A psalm of Asaph, one of the directors of the Temple-chorus at the time of David, distinguished for musical and poetical ability, 1 Chronicles 26. The hymn shows how the grandeur and solemnity of the divine judgment should instruct men in the true worship and encourage them in true piety. v. 1. The mighty God, even the Lord (in the Hebrew: El Elohim Jehovah), the God of gods, Jehovah, the supreme God of earth and heaven, hath spoken and called the earth from the... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Psalms 50:1-23

Psalms 50:0A Psalm of Asaph The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken,And called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,God hath shined.3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence:A fire shall devour before him,And it shall be very tempestuous round about him.4 He shall call to the heavens from above,And to the earth, that he may judge his people.5 Gather my saints together unto me;Those that have... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Psalms 50:16-23

God’s Warning to the Wicked Psalms 50:16-23 These searching words are for us all. We have no right to declare God’s statutes, if our hearts hide wickedness in their secret chambers. We must not share ill-gotten money. Impurity, deceit, slander must be far from us, if we would have fellowship with God in prayer or service. God’s silence must not be taken as indifference, for He is carefully watching each word and act; and if we persist, He will arise and set out all these unforgiven sins in... read more

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

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 50:16-21

God Speaks To The ‘Wicked’, The More Overt Covenant Breakers, Whom He Sees As Blatantly Hypocritical, And Outlines The Activities That Cut Them Off From His Mercy. He Points Out That He Is Coming In Order To ‘Reprove’ Them And Put Things Right (Psalms 50:16-21 ). Psalms 50:16-17 ‘But to the wicked God says, What have you to do to declare my statutes, And that you have taken my covenant in your mouth, Seeing you hate instruction, And cast my words behind you?’ God challenges ‘the wicked’ for... 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 50:16

Unto the wicked, i.e. the same ungodly and hypocritical professors whom he calleth saints, Psalms 50:5, in regard of their profession, and here wicked in respect of their practice, and the truth of the thing. God saith: he told them what he would not reprove them for, Psalms 50:8, and why, Psalms 50:9,Psalms 50:10, &c.; now he tells them for what he did reprove and condemn them, even for a vain and false profession of religion. With what confidence darest thou make mention of or boast of... read more