Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Psalms 50:18
Verse Psalms 50:18. When thou sawest a thief] Rapine, adulteries, and adulterous divines, were common among the Jews in our Lord's time. The Gospels give full proof of this.
Verse Psalms 50:18. When thou sawest a thief] Rapine, adulteries, and adulterous divines, were common among the Jews in our Lord's time. The Gospels give full proof of this.
WHEN THOU SAWEST A THIEF - When you have seen or found one who was intending to commit theft, then (instead of rebuking or exposing him) you have been willing to act with him, and to divide the profit...
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...
CONSENTEDST WITH. foundest pleasure with. Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulg, read "rannest"....
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...
_then thou consentedst with him_ The original is stronger: thou didst delight thyself with him, didst gladly associate with him. Cf. Job 34:9. R.V. omits _then_. The LXX vocalises the consonants diffe...
WHEN THOU SAWEST A THIEF, &C.— In this and the two following verses are represented the notorious vices of the synagogue, which was extremely corrupt in the time of Christ. Mudge renders the latter cl...
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...
_WHEN THOU SAWEST A THIEF, THEN THOU CONSENTEDST WITH HIM, AND HAST BEEN PARTAKER WITH ADULTERERS._ When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him - thou dost actively, and with complacency...
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....
THOU CONSENTEDST WITH HIM — _i.e., hast pleasure in._ (Comp. Job 34:9.)...
אִם ־רָאִ֣יתָ גַ֭נָּב וַ תִּ֣רֶץ עִמֹּ֑ו וְ
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...
When thou sawest a thief, then (o) thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. (o) He shows what the fruits of them who contemn God's word are....
Sacrifice. If my crime were of such a nature as the be expiated by certain victims, I would surely have offered them: but my heart has offended, and must do penance. (Calmet) --- The legal victims wer...
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...
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...
WHEN THOU SAWEST A THIEF, THEN THOU CONSENTEDST WITH HIM,.... Or "didst run with him" a; joined and agreed with him in the commission of the same things; which was literally true of the Scribes and Ph...
When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. Ver. 18. _When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him_] _Mala opera hic memorata sunt in...
_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...
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...
When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, taking pleasure in the form of wickedness practised against the Seventh Commandment and thus becoming guilty of the same crime, AND HAST BEEN...
HAST BEEN PARTAKER WITH ADULTERERS: _ Heb._ thy portion was with adulterers...
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...
SAWEST; or, _didst observe_, or _consider_; when he came into thy presence and company, and thou didst understand and consider his ways, and his success and impunity, and he invited thee to a particip...
Psalms 50:18 saw H7200 (H8804) thief H1590 consented H7521 (H8799) partaker H2506 adulterers H5003 (H8764)...
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...
_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...
_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-...
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...
1 Timothy 5:22; Ephesians 5:11; Hebrews 13:4; Isaiah 5:23; Jeremiah