Psalms · Literal Standard Version
Psalm 50 Literal Standard Version
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- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
1 A PSALM OF ASAPH. The God of gods—YHWH—has spoken, || And He calls to the earth || From the rising of the sun to its going in.
1 A Psalm by Asaph. The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
2 From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shone.
2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.
3 Our God comes, and is not silent, || Fire devours before Him, || And around Him it has been very tempestuous.
3 Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.
4 He calls to the heavens from above, || And to the earth, to judge His people.
4 He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:
5 Gather My saints to Me, || Making covenant with Me over a sacrifice.
5 “Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
6 And the heavens declare His righteousness, || For God Himself is judging. Selah.
6 The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.
7 Hear, O My people, and I speak, || O Israel, and I testify against you, || God—I [am] your God.
7 “Hear, my people, and I will speak. Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
8 I do not reprove you for your sacrifices, || Indeed, your burnt-offerings || [Are] continually before Me.
8 I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
9 I do not take a bullock from your house, || [Or] male goats from your folds.
9 I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.
10 For every beast of the forest [is] Mine, || The livestock on the hills of oxen.
10 For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.
11 I have known every bird of the mountains, || And the wild beast of the field [is] with Me.
11 I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.
12 If I am hungry I do not tell [it] to you, || For the world and its fullness [is] Mine.
12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls, || And drink the blood of male goats?
13 Will I eat the meat of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
14 Sacrifice to God confession, || And complete your vows to the Most High.
14 Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.
15 And call Me in a day of adversity, || I deliver you, and you honor Me.
15 Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
16 And to the wicked God has said: What to you—to recount My statutes? That you lift up My covenant on your mouth?
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 Indeed, you have hated instruction, || And cast My words behind you.
17 since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
18 If you have seen a thief, || Then you are pleased with him, || And your portion [is] with adulterers.
18 When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.
19 You have sent forth your mouth with evil, || And your tongue joins deceit together,
19 “You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.
20 You sit, you speak against your brother, || You give slander against a son of your mother.
20 You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.
21 These you did, and I kept silent, || You have thought that I am like you, || I reprove you, and set in array before your eyes.
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 understand this, || You who are forgetting God, || Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.
22 “Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
23 He who is sacrificing praise honors Me, || As for him who makes a way, || I cause him to look on the salvation of God!
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.
- 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).
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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).
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Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
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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)