--- title: "Psalms 50 - Study King James Bible with clarkes commentary" description: "Read Psalms 50 with clarkes commentary commentary. 1 The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. 2 Out of Zion, the perfection o" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/clarkes-commentary/psalms/50" --- [ Read](/kjv/psalms/50)[ Commentary](/study/psalms/50)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/psalms/50) Audio 1 The mighty God, *even* the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.* 2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. 3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. 4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people. 5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. 6 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God *is* judge himself. Selah. 7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I *am* God, *even* thy God. 8 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, *to have been* continually before me. 9 I will take no bullock out of thy house, *nor* he goats out of thy folds. 10 For every beast of the forest *is* mine, *and* the cattle upon a thousand hills. 11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field *are* mine.* 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world *is* mine, and the fulness thereof. 13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? 14 Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: 15 And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. 16 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? 17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. 18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.* 19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.* 20 Thou sittest *and* speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son. 21 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. 22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear *you* in pieces, and *there be* none to deliver. 23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth *his* conversation *aright* will I shew the salvation of God.* [Psalms 49](/study/psalms/49) [Psalms 51](/study/psalms/51) ## Commentary To verse 1 In the *title* this is said to be *A Psalm of Asaph*. There are *twelve* that go under his name; and most probably he was author of each, for he was of high repute in the days of David, and is mentioned *second* to him as a composer of psalms: *Moreover Hezekiah* *the king, and the princes, commanded the Levites to sing praise* *unto the Lord, with the WORDS of DAVID, and of ASAPH the SEER*. His band, sons or companions, were also eminent in the days of David, as we learn from [1 Chronicles 25:1](/kjv/1-chronicles/25/1), c. *Asaph* himself was one of the *musicians* who *sounded with cymbals* *of brass*, [1 Chronicles 15:19](/kjv/1-chronicles/15/19). And he is mentioned with great respect, [Nehemiah 12:46](/kjv/nehemiah/12/46): *And in the days of DAVID and ASAPH of old* there were *CHIEF of* *the SINGERS, and SONGS of PRAISE and THANKSGIVING unto God*. He was certainly a *prophetic* man: he is called a *seer*-one on whom the *Spirit of God rested* and seems from this, his education, and natural talent, to be well qualified to *compose* hymns or psalms in the honour of God. Persons capable of judging, on a comparison of those Psalms attributed to *Asaph* with those known to be of *David*, have found a remarkable *difference* in the *style*. The style of David is more *polished, flowing, correct*, and *majestic*, than that of Asaph, which is more *stiff* and *obscure*. He has been compared to *Persius* and to *Horace*; he is *keen, full of reprehensions*, and his subjects are generally of the *doleful* kind; which was probably caused by his living in times in which there was great corruption of manners, and much of the displeasure of God either *threatened* or *manifested*. It is not known on what particular *occasion* this Psalm was written; but at most times it was suitable to the state of the Jewish Church. Verse [Psalms 50:1](/kjv/psalms/50/1). ***The mighty God*****, even*****the Lord, hath spoken*** — Here the *essential names* of God are used: אל אלהים יהוה *EL, ELOHIM,* *YEHOVAH, hath spoken*. The *six first verses* of this Psalm seem to contain a description of the *great judgment*: to any minor consideration or fact it seems impossible, with any propriety, to restrain them. In this light I shall consider this part of the Psalm, and show, - *First*, The preparatives to the coming of the great Judge. *El* *Elohim Jehovah hath spoken, and called the earth*-all the children of men *from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof*. *Out* *of Zion, the perfection of beauty*, (מכלל יפי michlal yophi, the beauty where all perfection is comprised,) *God hath shined*, [Psalms 50:1-2](/kjv/psalms/50/1-2). 1. He has sent his Spirit to convince men of sin, righteousness, and judgment. 2. He has sent his WORD; has made a revelation of himself; and has declared both his law and his Gospel to mankind: "Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined," [Psalms 50:2](/kjv/psalms/50/2). For out of Zion the law was to go forth, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. [Isaiah 2:3](/kjv/isaiah/2/3). *Secondly*, The accompaniments. 1. His approach is proclaimed, [Psalms 50:3](/kjv/psalms/50/3): "Our God shall come." 2. The trumpet proclaims his approach: "He shall not keep silence." 3. Universal nature shall be shaken, and the earth and its works be burnt up: "A fire shall devour before him and it shall be very tempestuous round about him," [Psalms 50:3](/kjv/psalms/50/3). *Thirdly*, The witnesses are summoned and collected, and collected from all quarters; some from heaven, and some from earth. 1. Guardian angels. 2. Human associates: "He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people," [Psalms 50:4](/kjv/psalms/50/4). *Fourthly*, The procedure. As far as it respects the righteous, orders are issued: "Gather my saints," those who are saved from their sins and made holy, "together unto me." And that the word saints might not be misunderstood, it is explained by "those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice;" those who have entered into union with God, through the sacrificial offering of the Lord Jesus Christ. All the rest are passed over in silence. We are told who they are that shall enter into the joy of their Lord, viz., only the *saints*, those who have made a covenant with God by sacrifice. All, therefore, who do not answer this description are excluded from glory. *Fifthly*, The final issue: all the angelic host, and all the redeemed of the Lord, join in applauding acclamation at the decision of the Supreme Judge. The heavens (for the earth is no more, it is burnt up) shall declare his righteousness, the exact justice of the whole procedure, where justice alone has been done without partiality, and without severity, nor could it be otherwise, *for God is Judge himself*. Thus the assembly is dissolved; the righteous are received into everlasting glory, and the wicked turned into hell, with all those who forget God. Some think that the sentence against the wicked is that which is contained, [Psalms 50:16-22](/kjv/psalms/50/16-22). 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