Psalms 50
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The glory of God
Verse 1
WEB A Psalm by Asaph. The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
KJV A Psalm of Asaph. The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
TSK of Asaph: ps 73:1, ps 83:1, 1ch 15:17, 1ch 16:37, 1ch 25:2,6, 2ch 29:30; mighty: ps 145:3-6, ge 17:1, jos 22:22, ne 9:6,32, isa 9:6, jer 10:6, jer 32:18,19; even: 1ki 18:21,36,37, isa 37:20, isa 54:5; hath spoken: isa 1:2, am 3:8; called: ps 49:1,2, ps 113:3, mal 1:11, mt 25:32
Verse 2
WEB Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
KJV Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
TSK Out: ps 68:24, isa 12:6, isa 26:21, ho 5:15, hab 2:20, heb 12:22-26; perfection: ps 48:2, ps 87:2,3, ps 80:17, so 5:16, zec 9:17; God: ps 80:1, de 33:2, hab 3:3,4, re 1:16, re 21:23
Verse 3
WEB Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.
KJV Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
TSK Our: ps 48:14, ps 68:20, re 22:20; keep: ps 50:21, ps 83:1, isa 42:13,14, isa 65:6,7; a fire: ps 97:3, ex 19:18, le 10:2, nu 16:35, de 9:3, 1ki 19:11,12, da 7:10, na 1:5-7, hab 3:5, mal 3:2,3, mal 4:1, mt 3:12, 2th 1:8,9, heb 2:3, heb 10:28,29, heb 12:18-21,29; it shall: ps 18:7-15, ps 97:4,5
Verse 4
WEB He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:
KJV He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.
TSK call: ps 50:6, de 4:36, de 30:19, de 31:28, de 32:1, isa 1:2, mic 6:1,2; judge: ps 96:13, ps 98:9, isa 11:3,4, joh 5:22,23
Verse 5
WEB “Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.”
KJV Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
TSK Gather: mt 24:31, 1th 4:16,17, 2th 2:1; my saints: ps 97:10, de 33:2,3, pr 2:8, isa 13:3, zec 14:5, 1co 6:2,3, 1th 3:13, jude 1:14; made: ex 24:3-8, mt 26:28, heb 9:10-23, heb 12:24, heb 13:20
Verse 6
WEB The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.
KJV And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
TSK heavens: ps 97:6, ro 2:5, re 16:5-7, re 19:2; God: ps 75:7, ge 18:25, joh 5:22,23, ro 14:9-12, 2co 5:10, re 20:11,12; Selah: ps 7:3-5, ps 9:16
Offerings to be changed for prayers
Verse 7
WEB “Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
KJV Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
TSK Hear: ps 81:8, isa 1:18, jer 2:4,5,9, mic 6:1-8; O my: ps 81:10-12, ex 19:5,6, de 26:17,18, 1sa 12:22-25; testify: de 31:19-21, 2ki 17:13, ne 9:29,30, mal 3:5; I am: ex 20:2, 2ch 28:5, eze 20:5,7,19,20, zec 13:9
Verse 8
WEB I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
KJV I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
TSK I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.: ps 40:6-8, ps 51:16, isa 1:11-31, jer 7:21-23, ho 6:6, heb 10:4-10
Verse 9
WEB I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.
KJV I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
TSK I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.: isa 43:23,24, mic 6:6-8, ac 17:25, heb 10:4-6
Verse 10
WEB For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.
KJV For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
TSK every: ps 8:6-8, ps 104:24,25, ge 1:24,25, ge 2:19, ge 8:17, ge 9:2,3, 1ch 29:14-16, job 40:15-24, jer 27:5,6, da 2:38; cattle: ps 104:14, ge 31:9, jon 4:11
Verse 11
WEB I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.
KJV I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
TSK know: ps 104:12, ps 147:9, ge 1:20-22, job 38:41, job 39:13-18,26-30, mt 6:26, mt 10:29-31, lu 12:24; wild: isa 56:9, eze 14:15,16
Verse 12
WEB If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
KJV If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
TSK world: ps 24:1,2, ps 115:15,16, ex 19:5, de 10:14, job 41:11, 1co 10:26-28; fulness: ps 104:24, ps 145:15,16, ge 1:11,12,28-30, ge 8:17
Verse 13
WEB Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
KJV Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
TSK No cross references.
Verse 14
WEB Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.
KJV Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:
TSK Offer: ps 50:23, ps 69:30,31, ps 107:21,22, ps 147:1, ho 14:2, 1th 5:18, heb 13:15, 1pe 2:5,9; pay: ps 56:12, ps 76:11, ps 116:12-14,17,18, le 27:2-34, nu 30:2-16, de 23:21, ec 5:4,5, na 1:15
Verse 15
WEB Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”
KJV And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
TSK call: ps 77:2, ps 91:15, ps 107:6-13,19,28, 2ch 33:12,13, job 22:27, zec 13:9, lu 22:44, ac 16:25, jas 5:13; deliver: ps 34:3,4, ps 66:13-20, lu 17:15-18; glorify: ps 50:23, ps 22:23, mt 5:16, joh 15:8, 1pe 4:11,14
Sincere obedience required
Verse 16
WEB But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
KJV But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
TSK wicked: isa 48:22, isa 55:6,7, eze 18:27; What: pr 26:7, isa 1:11-15, isa 48:1,2, isa 58:1-7, jer 7:4-7, mt 7:3-5,22,23, joh 4:24, ac 19:13-16, ro 2:17-24, 1co 9:27, 2pe 2:15; thou shouldest: ps 25:14, ps 78:36-38, eze 20:37,38, heb 8:9
Verse 17
WEB since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
KJV Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
TSK hatest: pr 1:7,28,29, pr 5:12,13, pr 8:36, pr 12:1, joh 3:20, ro 1:28, ro 2:21,23, 2th 2:10-12, 2ti 4:3,4; castest: ne 9:26, isa 5:23, jer 8:9, jer 18:12, jer 36:23-32
Verse 18
WEB When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.
KJV When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
TSK consentedst: pr 1:10-19, isa 5:23, mic 7:3, ro 1:32, eph 5:11-13; hast been partaker: le 20:10, job 31:9-11, pr 2:16-19, pr 7:19-23, jer 5:8,9, heb 13:4; partaker: mt 23:30, 1ti 5:22
Verse 19
WEB “You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.
KJV Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
TSK givest: ps 52:3-4, jer 9:5; tongue: ps 5:9, ps 10:7, ps 12:2,3, ps 36:3,4, ps 55:12,21, ps 64:3-5, isa 59:3,4, ho 4:2, ro 3:13,14, jas 3:5-9, re 21:8
Verse 21
WEB You 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.
KJV These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
TSK I kept: ps 50:3, ps 109:1-3, ec 8:11,12, isa 26:10, isa 57:11, ro 2:4,5, 2pe 3:9; thoughtest: ps 73:11, ps 94:7-11, nu 23:19, isa 40:15-18; that I was altogether such an one as thyself: ex 3:14; will: ps 50:8, pr 29:1, re 3:19; set: ps 90:8, ec 12:14, am 8:7, 1co 4:5
Verse 22
WEB “Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be none to deliver.
KJV Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
TSK consider: de 32:18, ec 7:14, eze 18:28, hag 1:5, lu 15:17; forget: ps 9:17, ps 10:4, job 8:13, isa 51:13, jer 2:32, ho 4:6; I tear: ho 5:14, ho 13:8, re 6:16,17; none: ps 7:2, 2sa 22:42, am 2:14, mic 5:8
Verse 23
WEB Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”
KJV Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I show the salvation of God.
TSK Whoso: ps 50:14,15, ps 22:23, ps 27:6, ps 86:9,12, ro 12:1, ro 15:6,9, ga 1:24, 1pe 2:9; to him: ps 24:4,5, ps 25:14, ps 85:9, joh 7:17, joh 8:31,32, ac 10:2-4, ac 11:14, ac 13:26, ga 6:16; ordereth his conversation: php 1:27, jas 3:13, 1pe 1:15; salvation: ps 91:16, isa 12:2, isa 45:17, isa 49:6, isa 51:5,6, lu 2:30