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Psalms Chapter 50

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Mizmor of Asaph

Elohim's Ongoing Judgment

The setting of this Psalm is a courtroom with Elohim Himself the Judge, Yisrael the defendant, and heaven and earth the witnesses.

The Court in Session (50:1-6)

50:1 EL Elohim (אלהים), YEHOVAH (יהוה), shall speak, and He shall the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down.

50:2 Out of Tzyon, the perfection of beauty, Elohim (אלהים) shines forth.

50:3 Eloheinu comes, and shall not keep silence:

A fire shall consumes before Him, and it shall be very stormy all around Him.

50:4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that He may judge His people.

50:5 'Gather My chasidim together unto Me; those that have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice'.

50:6 And the heavens shall declare His tzedakah: for Elohim (אלהים) [is] judge himself. Selah.


The Sin of Ritualism (50:7-15)

50:7 'Hear, O My people, and I will speak; O Yisrael, and I will testify against thee: Ani Elohim (אלהים), [even] Eloheicha.

50:8 I will not reprove you for your sacrifices or your olot, [to have been] continually before Me.

50:9 I will take no bullock out of your house, [nor] he-goats out of your folds.

50:10 For every beast of the forest [is] Mine, [and] the cattle upon a Thousand hills.

50:11 I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field [are] Mine.

50:12 If I were hungry, I would not tell you: for the world [is] Mine, and the fulness thereof.

50:13 Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

50:14 Offer unto Elohim (אלהים) thanksgiving; and pay your vows l'Elyon (עליון):

50:15 And call upon Me in the Yom Tzarah (trouble): I will deliver you, and you shalt glorify Me.


But to the Wicked... (50:16-21)

50:16 But unto the wicked,
Elohim (אלהים) saith:
"What have you to do to declare My statutes, or [that] Thou
shouldest take My covenant in your mouth?

50:17 Seeing you hate instruction, and cast My words behind you.

50:18 When you sawest a thief, then you consented with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

50:19 You let loose your mouth to evil, and your tongue frameth deceit.

50:20 You sit [and] speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

50:21 These [things] have you done, and I kept silence; you Thought that I was altogether [such an one] as your self: [but] I will reprove you, and set [them] in order before your eyes.


Warning and Promise (50:22, 23)

50:22 Now consider this, ye that forget Eloah (אלוהּ), lest I tear [you] in pieces, and [there be] none to deliver.

50:23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth Me: and to him that ordereth [his] conversation [aright] will I shew the salvation of Elohim (אלהים)'.


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