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Psalm 49 (50) Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899

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1 A psalm for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord hath spoken: and he hath called the earth. From the rising of the sun, to the going down thereof: 2 Out of Sion the loveliness of his beauty. 3 God shall come manifestly: our God shall come, and shall not keep silence. A fire shall burn before him: and a mighty tempest shall be round about him. 4 He shall call heaven from above, and the earth, to judge his people. 5 Gather ye together his saints to him: who set his covenant before sacrifices. 6 And the heavens shall declare his justice: for God is judge. 7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak: O Israel, and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God. 8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt offerings are always in my sight. 9 I will not take calves out of thy house: nor he goats out of thy flocks. 10 For all the beasts of the woods are mine: the cattle on the hills, and the oxen. 11 I know all the fowls of the air: and with me is the beauty of the field. 12 If I should be hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. 13 Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of goats? 14 Offer to God the sacrifice of praise: and pay thy vows to the most High. 15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. 16 But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth? 17 Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee. 18 If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with him: and with adulterers thou hast been a partaker. 19 Thy mouth hath abounded with evil, and thy tongue framed deceits. 20 Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy mother’s son: 21 These things hast thou done, and I was silent. Thou thoughtest unjustly that I should be like to thee: but I will reprove thee, and set before thy face. 22 Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you. 23 The sacrifice of praise shall glorify me: and there is the way by which I will shew him the salvation of God.

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 DRB.

  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

Articles and answers on this site that cite Psalm 50 (Hebrew/English numbering).

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)