Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Psalms 50:17
Verse Psalms 50:17. Seeing thou hatest instruction] All these rejected the counsel of God against themselves; and refused to receive the instructions of Christ.
Verse Psalms 50:17. Seeing thou hatest instruction] All these rejected the counsel of God against themselves; and refused to receive the instructions of Christ.
SEEING THOU HATEST INSTRUCTION - That is, He is unwilling himself to be taught. He will not learn the true nature of religion, and yet he presumes to instruct others. Compare the notes at Romans 2:21....
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...
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...
_instruction_ Or, _correction_; the whole discipline of moral education; a word occurring here only in the Psalter, but common in Proverbs, where it is the mark of the fool and the scorner to despise...
BUT UNTO THE WICKED GOD SAITH— The prophet now proceeds, as from the mouth of God, to foretel the destruction of the impenitent Jews; who, having received the law of God, and entered into covenant wit...
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...
_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?_ But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my s...
50:17 correction (h-5) Or 'instruction.'...
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...
(9-18) Notice the fine tone of irony that pervades this rebuke, the best weapon against ritualistic errors....
וְ֭ אַתָּה שָׂנֵ֣אתָ מוּסָ֑ר וַ תַּשְׁלֵ֖ךְ ד
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...
Seeing thou hatest (n) instruction, and castest my words behind thee. (n) To live according to my word....
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...
17._Also thou hatest correction _Here hypocrites are challenged with treacherous duplicity in denying, by their life and their works, that godliness which they have professed with the lip. Their conte...
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...
SEEING THOU HATEST INSTRUCTION,.... Or "correction" z; to be reproved or reformed by the statutes and covenant they declared to others; they taught others, but not themselves, Romans 2:21; or evangeli...
Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. Ver. 17. _Seeing thou hatest instruction_] Or discipline, thou wilt not be brought to live strictly, to exercise godliness; thou refu...
_Seeing thou hatest instruction_ Seeing thy practice contradicts thy profession, and makes thee a notorious and impudent liar. For though _with thy mouth thou showest much love_ to my statutes and cou...
seeing thou hatest instruction, namely, the rebuke of hypocrisy and sin as contained in the Word, AND CASTEST MY WORDS BEHIND THEE, turning his back upon the divine instructions with a gesture of utte...
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...
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...
Seeing thy practice contradicts thy profession, and makes thee a notorious and impudent liar. Though _with thy mouth thou showest much love_ (as is said of them, EZEKIEL 33:31) to my statutes and coun...
Psalms 50:17 hate H8130 (H8804) instruction H4148 cast H7993 (H8686) words H1697 behind H310 hatest -...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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 Thessalonians 2:10; 2 Timothy 4:3; 2 Timothy 4:4; Isaiah 5:23;...