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Psalms 50

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Part of Book II📖 Psalms introduction

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1A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from where the sun rises to where it sets. ✦ 2From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth. ✦ 3Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him. ✦ 4He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that He may judge His people: ✦ 5“Gather to Me My saints, who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.” ✦ 6And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah ✦ 7“Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God. ✦ 8I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me. ✦ 9I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens, ✦ 10for every beast of the forest is Mine—the cattle on a thousand hills. ✦ 11I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are Mine. ✦ 12If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof. ✦ 13Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? 14Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High. ✦ 15Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.” ✦ 16To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips? ✦ 17For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you. ✦ 18When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers. ✦ 19You unleash your mouth for evil and unharness your tongue for deceit. ✦ 20You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son. ✦ 21You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face. ✦ 22Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you: ✦ 23He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rights his way, I will show the salvation of God.” ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Ps 50 ·7Isa 1 ·5Ps 107 ·4Rom 2 ·4Gen 1 ·4Heb 12 ·4Ezek 20 ·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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