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Psalms 50

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Part of Book II📖 Psalms introduction

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1The Lord, the Mighty One, is God, and he has spoken; he has summoned all humanity from where the sun rises to where it sets. ✦ 2From Mount Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines in glorious radiance. ✦ 3Our God approaches, and he is not silent. Fire devours everything in his way, and a great storm rages around him. ✦ 4He calls on the heavens above and earth below to witness the judgment of his people. ✦ 5“Bring my faithful people to me— those who made a covenant with me by giving sacrifices.” ✦ 6Then let the heavens proclaim his justice, for God himself will be the judge. Interlude ✦ 7“O my people, listen as I speak. Here are my charges against you, O Israel: I am God, your God! ✦ 8I have no complaint about your sacrifices or the burnt offerings you constantly offer. ✦ 9But I do not need the bulls from your barns or the goats from your pens. ✦ 10For all the animals of the forest are mine, and I own the cattle on a thousand hills. ✦ 11I know every bird on the mountains, and all the animals of the field are mine. ✦ 12If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for all the world is mine and everything in it. ✦ 13Do I eat the meat of bulls? Do I drink the blood of goats? 14Make thankfulness your sacrifice to God, and keep the vows you made to the Most High. ✦ 15Then call on me when you are in trouble, and I will rescue you, and you will give me glory.” ✦ 16But God says to the wicked: “Why bother reciting my decrees and pretending to obey my covenant? ✦ 17For you refuse my discipline and treat my words like trash. ✦ 18When you see thieves, you approve of them, and you spend your time with adulterers. ✦ 19Your mouth is filled with wickedness, and your tongue is full of lies. ✦ 20You sit around and slander your brother— your own mother’s son. ✦ 21While you did all this, I remained silent, and you thought I didn’t care. But now I will rebuke you, listing all my charges against you. ✦ 22Repent, all of you who forget me, or I will tear you apart, and no one will help you. ✦ 23But giving thanks is a sacrifice that truly honors me. If you keep to my path, I will reveal to you 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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