Psalms · 23 verses

Psalms 50

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In the middle of a divine court speech, God pauses to say that if hunger ever struck, nobody would hear about it—and then asks whether bulls and goats are really on the menu.

The summons from Zionvv. 1–6

Asaph’s psalm opens with God summoning the whole earth, from sunrise to sunset. He shines from Zion, arrives with fire and tempest, and calls heaven and earth to witness as He judges the people who made a covenant with Him by sacrifice.

What sacrifice can and cannot dovv. 7–15

God speaks to Israel, but the complaint is not that sacrifices have been neglected. Every animal already belongs to Him: the forest beasts, the cattle on a thousand hills, the mountain birds, and the creatures of the field. The imagined hungry God would not send word to mortals, because the world and all its fullness are His. What He asks instead is thanksgiving, fulfilled vows, and a call upon Him in trouble.

The lips and the lifevv. 16–23

Then the address turns to the wicked, who recite God’s statutes and carry His covenant on their lips while throwing His words behind them. Their alliances, speech, and slander are laid out with uncomfortable precision. God’s former silence has been mistaken for likeness; now comes the face-to-face rebuke, followed by a warning to those who forget Him and a final contrast between thanksgiving and a rightly ordered way.

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Ps 50:1A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from where the sun rises to where it sets.
Ps 50:2From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.
Ps 50:3Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.
Ps 50:4He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that He may judge His people:
Ps 50:5“Gather to Me My saints, who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”
Ps 50:6And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah
Ps 50:7“Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God.
Ps 50:8I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.
Ps 50:9I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens,
Ps 50:10for every beast of the forest is Mine—the cattle on a thousand hills.
Ps 50:11I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are Mine.
Ps 50:12If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof.
Ps 50:13Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Ps 50:14Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.
Ps 50:15Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
Ps 50:16To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?
Ps 50:17For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.
Ps 50:18When you see a thief, you befriend him, and throw in your lot with adulterers.
Ps 50:19You unleash your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit.
Ps 50:20You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
Ps 50:21You 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.
Ps 50:22Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
Ps 50:23He who sacrifices a thank offering honors Me, and to him who rightly orders his way, I will show the salvation of God.”

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Where this is echoed

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15 Psalms 107:28Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He brought them out of their distress.
15 Psalms 34:3–4Magnify the LORD with me; let us exalt His name together.
15 Zechariah 13:9This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”
15 Psalms 107:19Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.
14 Hebrews 13:15Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.
15 James 5:13Is any one of you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises.
23 Psalms 91:16With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.”
14 Psalms 56:12Your vows are upon me, O God; I will render thank offerings to You.
15 Job 22:27You will pray to Him, and He will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows.
14 Deuteronomy 23:21If you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not be slow to keep it, because He will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin.
15 2 Chronicles 33:12–13And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.
23 James 3:13Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good conduct, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
14 Psalms 107:21–22Let them give thanks to the LORD for His loving devotion and His wonders to the sons of men.
15 Luke 17:15–18When one of them saw that he was healed, he came back, praising God in a loud voice.
15 John 15:8This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples.
15 Acts 16:25About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.

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