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THOU SITTEST AND SPEAKEST AGAINST THY BROTHER - To the general
character of falsehood and slander there is now added the fact that
they were guilty of this in the most aggravated manner conceivable -...
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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 ...
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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...
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THINE OWN MOTHER'S SON. Figure of speech _Periphrasis_, for emphasis....
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In the preceding verses God has reproved the formalist: the man who
regarded the offering of sacrifice as the essence of religion. He now
turns to address the wicked man: the hypocrite, who repeated H...
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_Thou sittest_emphasises the deliberateness of the slander. Cp. "the
session of scorners," i. 1. _Thy brother_might mean any Israelite; but
the alternative _thine own mother's son_(cp. Psalms 69:8, no...
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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...
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_THOU SITTEST AND SPEAKEST AGAINST THY BROTHER; THOU SLANDEREST THINE
OWN MOTHER'S SON._
Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother. "Sittest" implies
deliberate purpose; taking thy seat habituall...
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50:20 revilest (i-9) Or 'slanderest.'...
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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...
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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...
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תֵּ֭שֵׁב בְּ אָחִ֣יךָ תְדַבֵּ֑ר בְּ
בֶֽן ־אִ֝
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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;...
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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...
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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...
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Thou (p) sittest [and] speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest
thine own mother's son.
(p) He notes the cruelty of hypocrites who in their talk or judgment
do not spare their own mother's sons....
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Deal. These two verses have no necessary connexion with the preceding:
they may have been added by some prophet at Babylon, (Calmet) or David
foresaw the destruction of the city by the Chaldeans. (St....
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This seems to be a solemn remonstrance and expostulation with the
unbelieving and hypocritical Jews, who rested in the means, and
totally overlooked and even despised the end: who, as our Lord told
th...
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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...
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THOU SITTEST,.... Either in the chair of Moses, or on the seat of
judgment, in the great sanhedrim of the nation; or, as Aben Ezra
paraphrases it, "in the seat of the scornful";
[AND] SPEAKEST AGAINS...
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Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine
own mother's son.
Ver. 20. _Thou sittest_] In the seat of the scornful, on the ale
bench, &c.
_ And speakest against thy brothe...
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_When thou sawest a thief_ Instead of reproving him, and witnessing
against him, as those should do that declare God's statutes, or that
profess his religion; _thou consentedst with him_ Didst approve...
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Thou sit test and speakest against thy brother, the nearest relative
by blood not being safe against the tongue of the slanderer and
reviler; THOU SLANDEREST THINE OWN MOTHER'S SON, the lowest and
mea...
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OF THE TRUE SERVICE OF GOD.
A psalm of Asaph, one of the directors of the Temple-chorus at the
time of David, distinguished for musical and poetical ability, 1
Chronicles 26. The hymn shows how the g...
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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...
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Thou dost not only speak evil in a sudden passion, or upon some great
provocation, but this is thy constant and deliberate practice and
business, which thou dost pursue with great facility and complac...
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Psalms 50:20 sit H3427 (H8799) speak H1696 (H8762) brother H251 You
H5414 (H8799) slander H1848 mothers...
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GOD SPEAKS TO THE ‘WICKED', THE MORE OVERT COVENANT BREAKERS, WHOM
HE SEES AS BLATANTLY HYPOCRITICAL, AND OUTLINES THE ACTIVITIES THAT
CUT THEM OFF FROM HIS MERCY. HE POINTS OUT THAT HE IS COMING IN O...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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-...
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_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...
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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
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Timothy 3:11; Leviticus 19:16; Luke 22:65; Matthew 10:21; Matthe