Now consider this, ye that forget God, those who depend upon an external righteousness of works and forget the need of true piety of the heart, lest I tear you in pieces, in a punishment of utter destruction, and there be none to deliver, for when God once begins to strike, it is impossible to escape. And so the conclusion is offered:
Verse Psalms 50:22. _NOW CONSIDER THIS_] Ye have forgotten your God, and sinned against him. He has marked down all your iniquities, and has them _in order_ to exhibit against you. Beware, therefore,...
NOW CONSIDER THIS - Understand this; give attention to this. The word “now” does not well express the force of the original. The Hebrew word is not an adverb of “time,” but a particle denoting “entrea...
Psalms 50 The Demands of a Righteous God _ 1. His coming and His call (Psalms 50:1)_ 2. The God of Israel speaks (Psalms 50:7) 3. The demands of righteousness ...
L. GOD LOOKS TO CONDUCT RATHER THAN TO SACRIFICE. For the attitude to sacrifice, _cf._ Psalms 40*. PSALMS 50:1. The expected Theophany. PSALMS 50:1. Read _mg._ with LXX. CALLED THE EARTH: since the...
GOD. Hebrew Eloah. App-4. DELIVER. rescue....
_ye that forget God Elôah:_see note on Psalms 50:1. For the phrase cp. Psalms 9:17; Job 8:13; and for the thought, Psalms 10:4. _lest I tear_&c. Like a
Practical conclusion, addressed to both classes: to the formal worshippers who -forget God" by ignoring the spiritual character of the worship which He desires, as well as to the hypocrites whose cond...
NOW CONSIDER THIS— Here God must be supposed to have delivered up the wicked man to punishment irreversible; and upon that, to speak these two verses. Upon this supposition, _lest I tear,_ &c. comes i...
PSALMS 50 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Judgment on Israel Pronounced amid the Solemnities of an Audible and Visible Divine Manifestation. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 50:1-7, Preparations for Judgment: consisti...
_NOW CONSIDER THIS, YE THAT FORGET GOD, LEST I TEAR YOU IN PIECES, AND THERE BE NONE TO DELIVER._ Now consider this - "this," i:e., all that has gone before, of warning against hypocrites and ungodly...
50:22 consider (k-2) Or 'understand.'...
The title (A PSALM OF ASAPH) is discussed in Intro, to Book 3, where the other Pss. of Asaph are found. The present Ps. is one of solemn warning to those who attempt to serve God by formal sacrifices...
PSALMS 42:72 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end. The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...
בִּֽינוּ ־נָ֣א זֹ֭את שֹׁכְחֵ֣י אֱלֹ֑והַּ פֶּן...
Psalms 50:1 This is the first of the Asaph psalms, and is separated from the other eleven (Psalms 73:1; Psalms 74:1; Psalms 75:1;...
GOD'S WARNING TO THE WICKED Psalms 50:16 These searching words are for us all. We have no right to declare God's statutes, if our hearts hide wickedness in their secret chambers. We must not share il...
The singer addresses himself in the name of God to the whole earth, that it may hear and learn an important lesson. The call is made in the first verse. The final appeal is in verses Psalms 50:22. The...
Is not this a beautiful conclusion, in a general appeal to everyone that hears, from what went before? It forms indeed a solemn and striking inference from the whole Psalm....
22_Now consider this, ye that forget God _Here we have more of that severe expostulation which is absolutely necessary in dealing with hardened hypocrites, who otherwise will only deride all instructi...
In Psalms 50 we enter on new ground God's judgment of the people. Jehovah the mighty God summons the whole earth; as in Psalms 51 we have their confession of killing Christ. The introduction of Psalms...
NOW CONSIDER THIS,.... The evils that had been committed, and repent of them; for repentance is an after thought and reconsideration of sin, and humiliation for it; that the Lord, was not like them, n...
Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear [you] in pieces, and [there be] none to deliver. Ver. 22. _Now consider this, ye that forget God_] That cast him and his counsels behind your backs,...
_Now consider this, ye that forget God_ Ye hypocritical and ungodly Israelites, who have forgotten (as Moses foretold ye would do, Deu 32:18) _the God that formed you_, and made you his people, and ha...
16-23 Hypocrisy is wickedness, which God will judge. And it is too common, for those who declare the Lord's statutes to others, to live in disobedience to them themselves. This delusion arises from t...
YE THAT FORGET GOD; ye hypocritical and ungodly Israelites, who have _forgotten_ (as Moses foretold you would do, DEUTERONOMY 32:18) _the God that formed you_, and made you his people, and forgotten h...
Psalms 50:22 consider H995 (H8798) forget H7911 (H8802) God H433 pieces H2963 (H8799) deliver H5337 ...
A FINAL PLEA TO ALL HIS COVENANT PEOPLE (PSALMS 50:22). God now makes a final plea to them to consider their ways, and not forget Him. For if they do He will stand by when they are being torn in piec...
Psalms 50:21 The disposition of many to misinterpret the moral government of God arises from one remarkable characteristic of it, to which our attention is drawn in this passage. Men misunderstand an...
Psalms 50:1. The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun until the going down thereof. Out of Zion the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. Our God sh...
A Psalm of Asaph. It is mentioned, in the life of Hezekiah, that «the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the Lord with the words of David, and of Asaph the seer,» so that v...
In the first part of this Psalm God has solemnly expostulated with his people as to the utter worthlessness of sacrifice and ceremony apart from living faith in him, and holy life as its fruit; and he...
CONTENTS: The arraignment of the ungodly and the greatness of Jehovah. CHARACTERS: God, Asaph. CONCLUSION: Every man shall be called to give an account of himself to God. In that great day, He will...
Asaph, to whom this psalm is inscribed, was a seer, as well as head of the singers. He was also the author of twelve psalms, extremely beautiful, and highly prophetic. He here declares that EL ELOHIM...
_Now consider this, ye that forget God._ FORGETFULNESS OF GOD: IT’S EVIL Forget God!--is this possible? What! when we see His “eternal power and Godhead” in all things above us and about us? If we lo...
_But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare My statutes?_ THE MERE FORMALIST AND THE SPIRITUALIST IN RELIGION I. The mere formalists in religion. 1. They are religiously active-...
_The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth, from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof._ THE FIRST OF THE ASAPH PSALMS This_, _the first of the Asaph psalms, is sep...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 50:1. Through this psalm the worshipers announce God’s standards for living as part of his covenant people. The God who summons the earth (v. Psal
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 50:16 The WICKED here are members of the covenant people who despise the privileges and responsibilities of the covenant (vv. Psalms 50:16). T
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_. “_A Psalm of Asaph_.” Asaph was “a Levite, son of Berachiah, one of the leaders of David’s choir (1 Chronicles 6:39). Psalms 50, 73-83 are attributed to him, but probabl...
EXPOSITION THE psalmist announces an appearance of God to his people "out of Zion," and a pronouncement of judgment upon them, which all heaven (Psalms 50:4) and earth (Psalms 50:1) are called upon to...
Psa 50:1-23 is divided into three categories. The first six verses deal with God who is speaking. In the Hebrew it begins, "El Elohim, Jehovah, hath spoken." God, singular; Gods, plural; and then the...
2 Samuel 22:42; Amos 2:14; Deuteronomy 32:18; Ecclesiastes 7:14;...