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Psalm 49 (50) Brenton's English Septuagint

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  • Individual translator
  • OT: Septuagint (Greek)
  • Septuagint Old Testament (no New Testament)
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  • 1844
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Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · Psalm 50 · About the recordings

Notes on this text (3)

Psalm 49 in Brenton = Psalm 50 in WEB.

Brenton Brenton's English Septuagint
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 A Psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down [thereof].
50:1 A Psalm by Asaph. The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
2 Out of Sion [comes] the excellence of his beauty.
50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.
3 God, our God, shall come manifestly, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall be kindled before him, and round about him there shall be a very great tempest.
50:3 Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.
4 He shall summon the heaven above, and the earth, that he may judge his people.
50:4 He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:
5 Assemble ye his saints to him, those that have engaged in a covenant with him upon sacrifices.
50:5 “Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge. Pause.
50:6 The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.
7 Hear, my people, and I will speak to thee, O Israel: and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.
50:7 “Hear, my people, and I will speak. Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
8 I will not reprove thee on account of thy sacrifices; for thy whole-burnt-offerings are before me continually.
50:8 I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
9 I will take no bullocks out of thine house, nor he-goats out of thy flocks.
50:9 I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.
10 For all the wild beasts of the thicket are mine, the cattle on the mountains, and oxen.
50:10 For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.
11 I know all the birds of the sky; and the beauty of the field is mine.
50:11 I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.
12 If I should be hungry, I will not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness of it.
50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
50:13 Will I eat the meat of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
14 Offer to God the sacrifice of praise; and pay thy vows to the Most High.
50:14 Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.
15 And call upon me in the day of affliction; and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. Pause.
50:15 Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
16 But to the sinner God has said, Why dost thou declare my ordinances, and take up my covenant in thy mouth?
50:16 But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
17 Whereas thou hast hated instruction, and hast cast my words behind [thee].
50:17 since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
18 If thou sawest a thief, thou rannest along with him, and hast cast in thy lot with adulterers.
50:18 When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.
19 Thy mouth has multiplied wickedness, and thy tongue has framed deceit.
50:19 “You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.
20 Thou didst sit and speak against thy brother, and didst scandalise thy mother's son.
50:20 You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.
21 These things thou didst, and I kept silence: thou thoughtest wickedly that I should be like thee; [but] I will reprove thee, and set [thine offences] before thee.
50:21 You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
22 Now consider these things, ye that forget God, lest he rend [you], and there be no deliverer.
50:22 “Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
23 The sacrifice of praise will glorify me: and that is the way wherein I will shew to him the salvation of God.
50:23 Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”
Cross references (22)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info. References use English (Hebrew-based) verse numbers; links open the passage in Brenton.

  1. 1 Psalm 113:3; Matthew 25:32; Joshua 22:22; Amos 3:8; Jeremiah 32:18–19
  2. 2 Revelation 21:23; Psalm 48:2; Psalm 80:1; Revelation 1:16; Hosea 5:15
  3. 3 Numbers 16:35; Daniel 7:10; Leviticus 10:2; Matthew 3:12; Psalm 97:3–5
  4. 4 Deuteronomy 31:28; Deuteronomy 32:1; Isaiah 1:2; Deuteronomy 4:26; Deuteronomy 30:19
  5. 5 Hebrews 13:20; Exodus 24:3–8; Matthew 26:28; Hebrews 12:24; Deuteronomy 33:2–3
  6. 6 Psalm 97:6; Psalm 75:7; Psalm 89:5; Revelation 19:2; Romans 14:9–12
  7. 7 Psalm 81:8; Exodus 20:2; Jeremiah 2:9; Exodus 19:5–6; Jeremiah 2:4–5
  8. 8 Hebrews 10:4–10; Hosea 6:6; Isaiah 1:11–31; Psalm 40:6–8; Psalm 51:16
  9. 9 Micah 6:6–8; Hebrews 10:4–6; Acts 17:25; Psalm 69:31; Isaiah 43:23–24
  10. 10 Jeremiah 27:5–6; Psalm 8:6–8; Psalm 104:14; Daniel 2:38; Psalm 104:24–25
  11. 11 Matthew 6:26; Genesis 1:20–22; Job 39:26–30; Luke 12:24; Matthew 10:29–31
  12. 12 Exodus 19:5; Deuteronomy 10:14; Psalm 24:1–2; 1 Corinthians 10:26–28; Job 41:11
  13. 14 Hebrews 13:15; Psalm 56:12; Deuteronomy 23:21; Psalm 107:21–22; Psalm 116:12–14
  14. 15 Psalm 107:28; Psalm 91:15; Psalm 34:3–4; Psalm 107:19; Zechariah 13:9
  15. 16 Isaiah 29:13; Psalm 78:36–38; Psalm 25:14; Isaiah 55:6–7; Romans 2:17–24
  16. 17 Nehemiah 9:26; Proverbs 12:1; 2 Timothy 4:3–4; Proverbs 1:28–29; 2 Thessalonians 2:10–12
  17. 18 Romans 1:32; 1 Timothy 5:22; Hebrews 13:4; Proverbs 7:19–23; Ephesians 5:11–13
  18. 19 Psalm 10:7; Jeremiah 9:5; Revelation 21:8; Psalm 52:2–4; Isaiah 59:3–4
  19. 20 Matthew 10:21; Leviticus 19:16; Proverbs 10:18; Revelation 12:10; Matthew 5:11
  20. 21 Romans 2:4–5; Proverbs 29:1; Isaiah 57:11; Psalm 94:7–11; Ecclesiastes 12:14
  21. 22 Job 8:13; Hosea 4:6; Psalm 9:17; Psalm 7:2; Psalm 10:4
  22. 23 Psalm 91:16; James 3:13; Psalm 24:4–5; Psalm 86:12; Psalm 50:14–15

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

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What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations). Verse numbers below follow the Hebrew/English numbering: 50.

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm XLIX)

    "Hear ye these things, all ye nations" (ver. 1). Not then you only who are here. For of what power is our voice so to cry out, as that all nations may hear?

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 50:1 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book III, Chapter VI)

    Of whom He again speaks: "The God of gods, the Lord hath spoken, and hath called the earth." Who is meant by God?

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  3. Quotes verse 50:1 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book IX, Chapter 23)

    And regarding the name itself, if they see fit to call such blessed and immortal creatures gods, this need not give rise to any serious discussion between us, since in our own Scriptures we read, "The God of gods, the Lord hath spoken;" and again, "Confess to the God of gods;" and again, "He is a great King above all …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)

  4. Quotes verse 50:12 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily XXX)

    And this He saith unto them in irony; as when He said, "Behold, Adam is become as one of us;" and again, "If I were hungry, I would not tell thee." For that no man on earth was righteous, Paul declared, saying, "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." And by this too the others …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)

  5. Quotes verse 50:21 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XV)

    … comes, not to be judged again, but to judge them who judged Him; He who before held His peace when judged, shall remind the transgressors who did those daring deeds at the Cross, and shall say, These things hast thou done, and I kept silence.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)