Psalms 50

Psalms 50:1

The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same.

Hear, O ye inhabitants of the earth; the great and mighty God of Heaven, having taken just notice of the extreme depravedness of the ways of men, calls you to account of this your universal wickedness, even all the world over, from one side of the earth to the other.

Psalms 50:2

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.

Behold, God hath shewn himself in his holy hill of Zion, where his temple, the glory of the whole earth, standeth: there he exhibits his majesty, and thence shall he controul the wickedness of men.

Psalms 50:3

Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

In great terror and majesty, shall God declare his displeasure against the presumptuous sins of men; for he shall come attended with fire and tempest: a devouring fire shall go before him, and a fearful tempest shall be round about him.

Psalms 50:4

He shall call to the heaven above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.

He shall appeal both to the heavens and earth, as the witnesses of his just proceedings with men, and their too just

Psalms 50:5

Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

Let that heaven and that earth, saith he, summon together before me, that chosen people of mine, who have made an external profession of my name, and have, by the continual use of their sacrifices, outwardly renewed their covenant with me.

Psalms 50:6

And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself.

Yea, those heavens shall not only summon his people and witness their wickedness, but shall also proclaim and declare to the world his apparent justice, both in giving his law and in exacting it of them; neither shall their hypocrisy any longer deceive the eyes of men, for now, God himself, who cannot be deluded, will unmask their wickedness before all the world. L. 8, 9. I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, &c. I will take no bullock, &c. Do not think to choke me with the formalities of thine outward sacrifices: these are not the things I stand upon.