Psalms · Catholic Public Domain Version
Psalm 49 (50) Catholic Public Domain Version
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · Psalm 50 · About the recordings
Notes on this text (4)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
- Psalms follow the Greek/Latin numbering, with the psalm titles counted as verse 1 (as in the Vulgate).
- Esther and Daniel are the Vulgate books (Esther 1–16 with the Greek additions as chapters 10:4–16; Daniel 1–14 with the Song of the Three, Susanna and Bel). Baruch 6 is the Letter of Jeremiah.
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Psalm 49 in CPDV = Psalm 50 in WEB.
1 A Psalm of Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord has spoken, and he has called the earth, from the rising of the sun even to its setting,
50:1 A Psalm by Asaph. The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
2 from Zion, the brilliance of his beauty.
50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.
3 God will arrive manifestly. Our God also will not keep silence. A fire will flare up in his sight, and a mighty tempest will surround him.
50:3 Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.
4 He will call to heaven from above, and to the earth, to discern his people.
50:4 He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:
5 Gather his holy ones to him, you who order his covenant above sacrifices.
50:5 “Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
6 And the heavens will announce his justice. For God is the judge.
50:6 The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.
7 Listen, my people, and I will speak. Listen, Israel, and I will testify for you. I am God, your 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 you for your sacrifices. Moreover, your holocausts are ever in my sight.
50:8 I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
9 I will not accept calves from your house, nor he-goats from your 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 forest are mine: the cattle on the hills and the oxen.
50:10 For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.
11 I know all the flying things of the air, and the beauty of the field is with me.
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 would not tell you: for the whole world is mine, and all its plentitude.
50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
13 Shall I gnaw on the flesh of bulls? Or would I 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 your 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 tribulation. I will rescue you, and you will honor me.
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 do you discourse on my justices, and take up my covenant through your 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 Truly, you have hated discipline, and you have cast my sermons behind you.
50:17 since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
18 If you saw a thief, you ran with him, and you have placed your portion with adulterers.
50:18 When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.
19 Your mouth has abounded with malice, and your tongue has concocted deceits.
50:19 “You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.
20 Sitting, you spoke against your brother, and you set up a scandal against your mother’s son.
50:20 You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.
21 These things you have done, and I was silent. You thought, unjustly, that I ought to be like you. But I will reprove you, and I will set myself against your face.
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 Understand these things, you who forget God; lest at any time, he might quickly take you away, and there would be no one to rescue you.
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 honor me. And in that place is the journey by which I will reveal 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 CPDV.
- 1 Psalm 113:3; Matthew 25:32; Joshua 22:22; Amos 3:8; Jeremiah 32:18–19
- 2 Revelation 21:23; Psalm 48:2; Psalm 80:1; Revelation 1:16; Hosea 5:15
- 3 Numbers 16:35; Daniel 7:10; Leviticus 10:2; Matthew 3:12; Psalm 97:3–5
- 4 Deuteronomy 31:28; Deuteronomy 32:1; Isaiah 1:2; Deuteronomy 4:26; Deuteronomy 30:19
- 5 Hebrews 13:20; Exodus 24:3–8; Matthew 26:28; Hebrews 12:24; Deuteronomy 33:2–3
- 6 Psalm 97:6; Psalm 75:7; Psalm 89:5; Revelation 19:2; Romans 14:9–12
- 7 Psalm 81:8; Exodus 20:2; Jeremiah 2:9; Exodus 19:5–6; Jeremiah 2:4–5
- 8 Hebrews 10:4–10; Hosea 6:6; Isaiah 1:11–31; Psalm 40:6–8; Psalm 51:16
- 9 Micah 6:6–8; Hebrews 10:4–6; Acts 17:25; Psalm 69:31; Isaiah 43:23–24
- 10 Jeremiah 27:5–6; Psalm 8:6–8; Psalm 104:14; Daniel 2:38; Psalm 104:24–25
- 11 Matthew 6:26; Genesis 1:20–22; Job 39:26–30; Luke 12:24; Matthew 10:29–31
- 12 Exodus 19:5; Deuteronomy 10:14; Psalm 24:1–2; 1 Corinthians 10:26–28; Job 41:11
- 14 Hebrews 13:15; Psalm 56:12; Deuteronomy 23:21; Psalm 107:21–22; Psalm 116:12–14
- 15 Psalm 107:28; Psalm 91:15; Psalm 34:3–4; Psalm 107:19; Zechariah 13:9
- 16 Isaiah 29:13; Psalm 78:36–38; Psalm 25:14; Isaiah 55:6–7; Romans 2:17–24
- 17 Nehemiah 9:26; Proverbs 12:1; 2 Timothy 4:3–4; Proverbs 1:28–29; 2 Thessalonians 2:10–12
- 18 Romans 1:32; 1 Timothy 5:22; Hebrews 13:4; Proverbs 7:19–23; Ephesians 5:11–13
- 19 Psalm 10:7; Jeremiah 9:5; Revelation 21:8; Psalm 52:2–4; Isaiah 59:3–4
- 20 Matthew 10:21; Leviticus 19:16; Proverbs 10:18; Revelation 12:10; Matthew 5:11
- 21 Romans 2:4–5; Proverbs 29:1; Isaiah 57:11; Psalm 94:7–11; Ecclesiastes 12:14
- 22 Job 8:13; Hosea 4:6; Psalm 9:17; Psalm 7:2; Psalm 10:4
- 23 Psalm 91:16; James 3:13; Psalm 24:4–5; Psalm 86:12; Psalm 50:14–15
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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.
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“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).
"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)
Of whom He again speaks: "The God of gods, the Lord hath spoken, and hath called the earth." Who is meant by God?
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)
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)
… 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)