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Here are my charges against you, O Israel: I am God, your God!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/psalms/50.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />“Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/psalms/50.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />“Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/psalms/50.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I <i>am</i> God, <i>even</i> thy God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/psalms/50.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />“Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you; I <i>am</i> God, your God!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/psalms/50.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“Hear, My people, and I will speak; Israel, I will testify against you; I am God, your God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/psalms/50.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220Hear, O My people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify against you; I am God, your God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/psalms/50.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“Hear, O My people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify against you; I am God, your God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/psalms/50.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />“Hear, O My people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify against you; I am God, your God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/psalms/50.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“Hear, O My people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify against you: I am God, your God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/psalms/50.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />“Listen, my people, and I will speak; I will testify against you, Israel. I am God, your God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/psalms/50.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Listen, My people, and I will speak; I will testify against you, Israel. I am God, your God. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/psalms/50.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, even thy God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/psalms/50.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />My people, I am God! Israel, I am your God. Listen to my charges against you. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/psalms/50.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, even thy God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/psalms/50.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />"Listen, my people, and I will speak. Listen, Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/psalms/50.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />"Listen, my people, and I will speak; I will testify against you, Israel. I am God, your God. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/psalms/50.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"Listen, my people, for I am making a pronouncement: Israel, I, God, your God, am testifying against you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/psalms/50.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />?Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/psalms/50.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />He says: "Listen my people! I am speaking! Listen Israel! I am accusing you! I am God, your God! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/psalms/50.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />"Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/psalms/50.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/psalms/50.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />“Hear, my people, and I will speak. Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/psalms/50.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Hear, O My people, and I speak, "" O Israel, and I testify against you, "" God—I [am] your God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/psalms/50.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Hear, O My people, and I speak, O Israel, and I testify against thee, God, thy God am I.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/psalms/50.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Hear ye, my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God thy God.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/psalms/50.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Hear, O my people, and I will speak: O Israel, and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/psalms/50.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br /><V 49:7>Listen, my people, and I will speak. Listen, Israel, and I will testify for you. I am God, your God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/psalms/50.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />“Listen, my people, I will speak; Israel, I will testify against you; God, your God, am I. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/psalms/50.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />“Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/psalms/50.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Hear, O my people, and I will speak to you; O Israel, I will testify to thee: I am God, even your God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/psalms/50.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Hear, my people, and I shall speak to you, and Israel, I shall testify to you.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/psalms/50.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Hear, O My people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: God, thy God, am I.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/psalms/50.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Hear, my people, and I will speak to thee, O Israel: and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/psalms/50-7.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nFaD2oDhKPc?start=5901" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/psalms/50.htm">The Mighty One Calls</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">6</span>And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah <span class="reftext">7</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/8085.htm" title="8085: šim·‘āh (V-Qal-Imp-ms:: 3fs) -- To hear. A primitive root; to hear intelligently.">“Hear,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5971.htm" title="5971: ‘am·mî (N-msc:: 1cs) -- From amam; a people; specifically, a tribe; hence troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock.">O My people,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1696.htm" title="1696: wa·’ă·ḏab·bê·rāh (Conj-w:: V-Piel-ConjImperf.Cohort-1cs) -- To speak. A primitive root; perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively, to speak; rarely to subdue.">and I will speak,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: yiś·rā·’êl (N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity.">O Israel,</a> <a href="/hebrew/5749.htm" title="5749: wə·’ā·‘î·ḏāh (Conj-w:: V-Hifil-ConjImperf.Cohort-1cs) -- A primitive root; to duplicate or repeat; by implication, to protest, testify; intensively, to encompass, restore.">and I will testify</a> <a href="/hebrew/bāḵ (Prep:: 2ms) -- ">against you:</a> <a href="/hebrew/595.htm" title="595: ’ā·nō·ḵî (Pro-1cs) -- I. Sometimes; a primitive pro. I.">I</a> <a href="/hebrew/430.htm" title="430: ’ĕ·lō·hîm (N-mp) -- Plural of 'elowahh; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used of the supreme God">am God,</a> <a href="/hebrew/430.htm" title="430: ’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā (N-mpc:: 2ms) -- Plural of 'elowahh; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used of the supreme God">your God.</a> </span><span class="reftext">8</span>I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/1-18.htm">Isaiah 1:18-20</a></span><br />“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool. / If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land. / But if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/7-22.htm">Jeremiah 7:22-23</a></span><br />For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices, / but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/5-21.htm">Amos 5:21-24</a></span><br />“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies. / Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard. / Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/micah/6-6.htm">Micah 6:6-8</a></span><br />With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves? / Would the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I present my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? / He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/43-22.htm">Isaiah 43:22-24</a></span><br />But you have not called on Me, O Jacob, because you have grown weary of Me, O Israel. / You have not brought Me sheep for burnt offerings, nor honored Me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense. / You have not bought Me sweet cane with your silver, nor satisfied Me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened Me with your sins; you have wearied Me with your iniquities.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/6-6.htm">Hosea 6:6</a></span><br />For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_samuel/15-22.htm">1 Samuel 15:22</a></span><br />But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/6-4.htm">Deuteronomy 6:4-5</a></span><br />Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One. / And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/malachi/1-6.htm">Malachi 1:6-8</a></span><br />“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’ / By presenting defiled food on My altar. But you ask, ‘How have we defiled You?’ By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible. / When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present the lame and sick ones, is it not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the LORD of Hosts.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/9-13.htm">Matthew 9:13</a></span><br />But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/12-7.htm">Matthew 12:7</a></span><br />If only you had known the meaning of ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/mark/12-29.htm">Mark 12:29-30</a></span><br />Jesus replied, “This is the most important: ‘Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One. / Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/4-23.htm">John 4:23-24</a></span><br />But a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such as these to worship Him. / God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/12-1.htm">Romans 12:1</a></span><br />Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/10-5.htm">Hebrews 10:5-10</a></span><br />Therefore, when Christ came into the world, He said: “Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You prepared for Me. / In burnt offerings and sin offerings You took no delight. / Then I said, ‘Here I am, it is written about Me in the scroll: I have come to do Your will, O God.’” ...</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, even your God.</p><p class="hdg">Hear</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/81-8.htm">Psalm 81:8</a></b></br> Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/1-18.htm">Isaiah 1:18</a></b></br> Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/2-4.htm">Jeremiah 2:4,5,9</a></b></br> Hear ye the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel: … </p><p class="hdg">O my</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/81-10.htm">Psalm 81:10-12</a></b></br> I <i>am</i> the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/19-5.htm">Exodus 19:5,6</a></b></br> Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth <i>is</i> mine: … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/26-17.htm">Deuteronomy 26:17,18</a></b></br> Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice: … </p><p class="hdg">testify</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/31-19.htm">Deuteronomy 31:19-21</a></b></br> Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_kings/17-13.htm">2 Kings 17:13</a></b></br> Yet the LORD testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, <i>and by</i> all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments <i>and</i> my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/nehemiah/9-29.htm">Nehemiah 9:29,30</a></b></br> And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear… </p><p class="hdg">I am</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/20-2.htm">Exodus 20:2</a></b></br> I <i>am</i> the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_chronicles/28-5.htm">2 Chronicles 28:5</a></b></br> Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought <i>them</i> to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/20-5.htm">Ezekiel 20:5,7,19,20</a></b></br> And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up mine hand unto the seed of the house of Jacob, and made myself known unto them in the land of Egypt, when I lifted up mine hand unto them, saying, I <i>am</i> the LORD your God; … </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/psalms/49-4.htm">Ear</a> <a href="/psalms/49-1.htm">Hear</a> <a href="/psalms/41-13.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/psalms/49-3.htm">Speak</a> <a href="/job/15-6.htm">Testify</a> <a href="/psalms/30-9.htm">Witness</a> <a href="/psalms/49-13.htm">Words</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/psalms/54-2.htm">Ear</a> <a href="/psalms/51-8.htm">Hear</a> <a href="/psalms/53-6.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/psalms/50-20.htm">Speak</a> <a href="/psalms/81-8.htm">Testify</a> <a href="/psalms/78-5.htm">Witness</a> <a href="/psalms/50-16.htm">Words</a><div class="vheading2">Psalm 50</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/psalms/50-1.htm">The majesty of God in the church</a></span><br><span class="reftext">5. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/psalms/50-5.htm">His order to gather his saints</a></span><br><span class="reftext">7. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/psalms/50-7.htm">The pleasure of God is not in ceremonies</a></span><br><span class="reftext">14. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/psalms/50-14.htm">but in sincerity of obedience</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/psalms/50.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/psalms/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/psalms/50.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>Hear, O My people, and I will speak</b><br>This phrase emphasizes the importance of listening to God's voice, a recurring theme throughout Scripture. In <a href="/deuteronomy/6-4.htm">Deuteronomy 6:4</a>, the Shema begins with "Hear, O Israel," underscoring the necessity of attentiveness to God's commandments. The call to hear signifies a divine summons, urging the people to pay attention to what God is about to declare. This is not merely a suggestion but a command, highlighting the authority of God as the speaker.<p><b>O Israel, and I will testify against you</b><br>Here, God addresses Israel directly, indicating a personal relationship with His chosen people. The act of testifying against them suggests a legal proceeding, where God, as the ultimate judge, presents His case. This reflects the covenantal relationship established at Sinai, where Israel agreed to follow God's laws. The language of testimony is reminiscent of the prophetic tradition, where prophets often served as God's mouthpiece to call Israel back to faithfulness (e.g., <a href="/isaiah/1-18.htm">Isaiah 1:18</a>).<p><b>I am God, your God</b><br>This declaration reaffirms God's identity and His exclusive relationship with Israel. The phrase "I am God" echoes the divine self-revelation in <a href="/exodus/3-14.htm">Exodus 3:14</a>, where God reveals Himself as "I AM." By stating "your God," there is an emphasis on the personal and covenantal bond between God and Israel. This is a reminder of the first commandment in <a href="/exodus/20-2.htm">Exodus 20:2-3</a>, where God asserts His position as the one true God who delivered Israel from Egypt, demanding exclusive worship and loyalty.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/g/god.htm">God</a></b><br>The speaker in this verse, who is addressing His people with authority and a call to listen.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a></b><br>The nation chosen by God, representing His covenant people who are being addressed directly.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/a/asaph.htm">Asaph</a></b><br>The author of <a href="/bsb/psalms/50.htm">Psalm 50</a>, a Levite and one of David's chief musicians, who is credited with writing several psalms.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/m/mount_zion.htm">Mount Zion</a></b><br>While not directly mentioned in this verse, it is often associated with God's dwelling place and His communication with Israel.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/c/covenant.htm">Covenant</a></b><br>The implied backdrop of this verse, referring to the special relationship and agreement between God and Israel.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_authority_and_relationship.htm">God's Authority and Relationship</a></b><br>Recognize that God speaks with authority as our Creator and Sustainer. He is not just any god, but "your God," emphasizing a personal relationship.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_listening.htm">The Importance of Listening</a></b><br>As God's people, we are called to listen attentively to His voice. This requires humility and a willingness to be corrected and guided by His Word.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/covenant_responsibility.htm">Covenant Responsibility</a></b><br>Being in a covenant relationship with God comes with responsibilities. We must live in a way that honors Him and reflects His holiness.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/self-examination.htm">Self-Examination</a></b><br>Use this verse as a prompt for self-examination. Are we truly listening to God, or are we ignoring His voice in our lives?<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_faithfulness.htm">God's Faithfulness</a></b><br>Despite the context of judgment, remember that God remains faithful to His covenant. His call to listen is also an invitation to return to Him.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_psalm_50.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Psalm 50</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/does_psalm_117_conflict_with_deut._7_6.htm">Does Psalm 117 conflict with other biblical passages that imply exclusivity or a chosen people, such as Deuteronomy 7:6, and if so, how?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_can_'goodness_and_mercy'_persist.htm">Psalm 23:6 - In light of history's atrocities, how can 'goodness and mercy' truly follow believers throughout their lives?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_exalt_israel's_horn,_not_others.htm">Why is God said to exalt 'the horn of his people' only for Israel, excluding other nations? (Psalm 148:14)</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/psalm_51_7__hyssop_vs._modern_cleansing.htm">Psalm 51:7 - Does the idea of being cleansed with hyssop conflict with modern understandings of physical purification and disease prevention?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/psalms/50.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(7) <span class= "bld">Hear.</span>--The actual judgment now opens, God asserting in impressive tones His right to preside: <span class= "ital">God, thy God, I <span class= "bld">. . .</span> </span>the Elohistic form of the more usual "Jehovah, thy God."<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/psalms/50.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 7-15.</span> - "The continuance of this dramatic scene," as Professor Cheyne remarks, "scarcely answers to the commencement. The judgment seems to be adjourned, or to be left to the conscience of the defendants." The faithful are summoned, and appear, but not to receive unqualified commendation (see <a href="/matthew/25-31.htm">Matthew 25:31-40</a>). Rather they receive a warning. The strong and prolonged depreciation of sacrifice (vers. 8-13) necessarily implies that in the religion of the time too much stress was laid upon it. We know that, in the heathen world, men sought to buy God's favour by their sacrifices, some] believing that, physically, the gods were nourished by the steam of the victims, others regarding them as laid under obligations which they could not disregard (Plato, 'Rep.,' it. § 6; Rawlinson, 'Religions of the Ancient World,' pp. 124, 125). We know, too, that, in the later monarchy, sacrifice to so great an extent superseded true spiritual worship among the Israelites themselves, that it became an offence to God, and was spoken of in terms of reprobation (<a href="/isaiah/1-11.htm">Isaiah 1:11-13</a>; <a href="/isaiah/66-3.htm">Isaiah 66:3</a>). Already, it would seem, this tendency was manifesting itself, and a warning from Heaven was needed against it<span class="cmt_word">.</span> <span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 7.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Hear, O my people, and I will speak</span>. God will not speak to deaf ears. Unless men are ready to attend to him, he keeps silence<span class="cmt_word">. O Israel, and I will testify against thee</span>; or, <span class="accented">protest unto thee</span> (Kay, Cheyne). I am <span class="accented">God</span>, even thy God. And therefore am entitled to be heard. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/psalms/50-7.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">“Hear,</span><br /><span class="heb">שִׁמְעָ֤ה</span> <span class="translit">(šim·‘āh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8085.htm">Strong's 8085: </a> </span><span class="str2">To hear intelligently</span><br /><br /><span class="word">O My people,</span><br /><span class="heb">עַמִּ֨י ׀</span> <span class="translit">(‘am·mî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5971.htm">Strong's 5971: </a> </span><span class="str2">A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and I will speak,</span><br /><span class="heb">וַאֲדַבֵּ֗רָה</span> <span class="translit">(wa·’ă·ḏab·bê·rāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1696.htm">Strong's 1696: </a> </span><span class="str2">To arrange, to speak, to subdue</span><br /><br /><span class="word">O Israel,</span><br /><span class="heb">יִ֭שְׂרָאֵל</span> <span class="translit">(yiś·rā·’êl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3478.htm">Strong's 3478: </a> </span><span class="str2">Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and I will testify</span><br /><span class="heb">וְאָעִ֣ידָה</span> <span class="translit">(wə·’ā·‘î·ḏāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Conjunctive imperfect Cohortative - first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5749.htm">Strong's 5749: </a> </span><span class="str2">To duplicate, repeat, to protest, testify, to encompass, restore</span><br /><br /><span class="word">against you:</span><br /><span class="heb">בָּ֑ךְ</span> <span class="translit">(bāḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/.htm">Strong's Hebrew</a> </span><span class="str2"></span><br /><br /><span class="word">I</span><br /><span class="heb">אָנֹֽכִי׃</span> <span class="translit">(’ā·nō·ḵî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Pronoun - first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_595.htm">Strong's 595: </a> </span><span class="str2">I</span><br /><br /><span class="word">am God,</span><br /><span class="heb">אֱלֹהִ֖ים</span> <span class="translit">(’ĕ·lō·hîm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_430.htm">Strong's 430: </a> </span><span class="str2">gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative</span><br /><br /><span class="word">your God.</span><br /><span class="heb">אֱלֹהֶ֣יךָ</span> <span class="translit">(’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_430.htm">Strong's 430: </a> </span><span class="str2">gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/psalms/50-7.htm">Psalm 50:7 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/psalms/50-7.htm">Psalm 50:7 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/psalms/50-7.htm">Psalm 50:7 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/psalms/50-7.htm">Psalm 50:7 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/psalms/50-7.htm">Psalm 50:7 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/psalms/50-7.htm">Psalm 50:7 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/psalms/50-7.htm">Psalm 50:7 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/psalms/50-7.htm">Psalm 50:7 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/psalms/50-7.htm">Psalm 50:7 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/psalms/50-7.htm">Psalm 50:7 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/psalms/50-7.htm">OT Poetry: Psalm 50:7 Hear my people and I will speak (Psalm Ps Psa.) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/psalms/50-6.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Psalm 50:6"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Psalm 50:6" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/psalms/50-8.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Psalm 50:8"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Psalm 50:8" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>