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Psalms 50

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Part of Book II📖 Psalms introduction

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1A Psalm by Asaph. The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset. ✦ 2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out. ✦ 3Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him. ✦ 4He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people: ✦ 5“Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.” ✦ 6The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah. ✦ 7“Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God. ✦ 8I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me. ✦ 9I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens. ✦ 10For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills. ✦ 11I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine. ✦ 12If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it. ✦ 13Will I eat the meat of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? 14Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High. ✦ 15Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.” ✦ 16But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips, ✦ 17since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you? ✦ 18When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers. ✦ 19“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit. ✦ 20You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son. ✦ 21You 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 this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver. ✦ 23Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.” ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Ps 50 ·7Isa 1 ·5Ezek 20 ·4Heb 12 ·4Gen 1 ·4Rom 2 ·4Ps 104 ·4Neh 9 ·4

Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 50 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

Resources, by level

Lay

  • ★ Start hereAudioThrough the WordThrough the Word · ~10 min/chapter · Free · evangelical

    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

  • ★ Start hereCommentaryPsalms (Tyndale OT Commentaries)Derek Kidner · Paid · evangelical

    Concise, theologically rich, and wonderfully accessible — the best place to start on the Psalms.

Pastoral

  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Psalms videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.

  • VideoWatch teaching on Psalms 50YouTube · Lay · Free

    Sermons and chapter teaching from across YouTube.

  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Psalms 50David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on PsalmsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Psalms 50Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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