Psalms

Psalm 50 ©

1 The majesty of God in the church: 5 his command to gather his saints. 7 God delighteth not in sacrifice, 14 but in a pious heart. 16 The hypocrite rebuked: 23 salvation promised to the upright.

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A Psalm 1of Asaph.

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THE amighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called bthe earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

a Ps. 145.5; 82.1,6. Is. 9.6. Ge. 17.1; 18.14.
b De. 4.26; 32.1. Ps. 113.3; 49.1,2. Mal. 1.11.
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Out of Zion, cthe perfection of beauty, dGod hath shined.

c Ps. 48.2; 78.68,69; 80.1; 68.24. 2Ch. 2.5,6. La. 2.15.
d De. 33.2. Ps. 94.1.
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Our eGod shall come, and shall not keep silence: fa fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

e Re. 22.20. He. 12.29. Ps. 97.3. Mal. 3.2. 2Th. 1.8,9. Da. 7.10. Re. 18.8.
f Ps. 21.9.
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He gshall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may hjudge his people.

g De. 4.26; 30.19; 32.1. Is. 1.2. Mi. 6.1,2.
h Is. 11.3,4; 42.1,4. Jn. 5.22,23. 2Co. 5.10.
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iGather my saints together unto me; those that jhave made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

i Ge. 49.10. Is. 13.3; 56.8. 2Th. 2.1. Mat. 24.31; 13.30. De. 33.3. Ps. 30.4; 79.2; 149.1,5,9.
j He. 12.24. Ex. 24.3-8. 2Sa. 23.5. Is. 55.3.
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And kthe heavens shall declare his righteousness: lfor God is judge himself. Selah.

k Ps. 97.6; 75.7. v.4. Re. 16.5-7. Ge. 18.25.
l Re. 20.12.
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mHear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.

m Mi. 6.1-8. Ps. 81.8,10-12. Is. 1.2,3. De. 26.17,18. Ex. 20.2. Je. 32.38,40. Zec. 13.9.
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I nwill not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

n Is. 1.11,14; 66.3. Je. 7.22. Ho. 6.6. Ps. 51.16.
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I owill take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.

o Mi. 6.6,7. Is. 1.11-14; 66.3. He. 10.1-8. Ac. 17.25. Ps. 40.6,7.
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For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.

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I pknow all the fowls of the mountains: and qthe wild beasts of the field are 2mine.

p Mat. 6.26; 10.29.
q Ps. 80.13.
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If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: rfor the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

r Ex. 19.5. De. 10.14. Job 41.11. Ps. 24.1,2. 1Co. 10.26,28.
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Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

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sOffer unto God thanksgiving; and tpay thy vows unto the most High:

s De. 23.21. Ho. 14.2. Ps. 69.30,31; 76.11; 116.17. v.23. Ec. 5.4,5. He. 13.15.
t Job 22.27. Ps. 61.8.
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And ucall upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt vglorify me.

u Job 22.27. Ps. 81.7; 91.15; 107.6,13,28. Ja. 5.13.
v v.23. Ps. 34.3. Jn. 15.8. Mat. 5.16. 1Pe. 2.9; 4.11.
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But unto the wicked God saith, wWhat hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?

w Is. 1.11-15. Jn. 4.24. Mat. 7.3,4,21-23. Lu. 6.46. Ro. 2.1-10,21,22.
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Seeing xthou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

x Pr. 5.12,13; 1.22,29. Ac. 13.45,46. Lu. 7.30. Jn. 3.20.
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When thou sawest a thief, then ythou consentedst with him, and 3hast been partaker with adulterers.

y Ep. 5.11,13. 1Ti. 5.22. Pr. 1.10-18; 5.3-13; 7.21,22.
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Thou 4givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue *frameth deceit.

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Thou zsittest and aspeakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

a Job 19.18.
z Le. 19.16. Ja. 4.11. Je. 9.3,4. Ps. 36.3,4. Mat. 10.21.
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These things hast thou done, and I bkept silence; thou cthoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I dwill reprove thee, and eset them in order before thine eyes.

b Ec. 8.11,12. 2Pe. 3.9. Ps. 83.1; 109.1. Is. 42.14; 57.11.
c Ec. 11.9. Is. 26.10,11. Ro. 2.4,5.
d Ps. 90.8. Re. 20.12.
e Job 23.4.
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Now consider this, ye that fforget God, lest I gtear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

f Ps. 9.17; 10.4. Je. 2.32. Ho. 4.6.
g Ho. 13.7,8. Is. 42.22. Re. 6.16,17.
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hWhoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him 5that ordereth his *conversation aright will I shew the isalvation of God.

h 1Pe. 2.9. Ps. 69.30,31. Ro. 12.1. v.14.
i Ps. 91.16. Is. 45.17. 1Pe. 1.9.