Psalms 50 · Verse 7

Psalms 50:7

Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
Psalms 50:7, King James Version

Psalms 50:7 in other translations

BSB“Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God.
WEB“Hear, my people, and I will speak. Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
ASVHear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, even thy God.
YLTHear, O My people, and I speak, O Israel, and I testify against thee, God, thy God am I.
DARBYHear, my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, thy God.
BBEGive ear, O my people, to my words; O Israel, I will be a witness against you; I am God, even your God.
WebsterHear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.

What does Psalms 50:7 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
7. I will testify--that is, for failure to worship aught. thy God--and so, by covenant as well as creation, entitled to a pure worship.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 7 Hear, O my people - As they were now amply informed concerning the nature and certainty of the general judgment, and were still in a state of probation, Asaph proceeds to show them the danger to which they were exposed, and the necessity of repentance and amendment, that when that great day should arrive, they might be found among those who had made a covenant with God by sacrifice. And he shows them that the sacrifice with which God would be well pleased was quite different from the bullocks, he-goats, etc., which they were in the habit of offering. In short, he shows here that God has intended to abrogate those sacrifices, as being no longer of any service: for when the people began to trust in them, without looking to the thing signified, it was time to put them away. When the people began to pay Divine honors to the brazen serpent, though it was originally an ordinance of God's appointment for the healing of the Israelites, it was ordered to be taken away; called nehushtan, a bit of brass; and broken to pieces. The sacrifices under the Jewish law were of God's appointment; but now that the people began to put their trust in them, God despised them.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 50:7-15
To obey is better than sacrifice, and to love God and our neighbour better than all burnt-offerings. We are here warned not to rest in these performances. And let us beware of resting in any form. God demands the heart, and how can human inventions please him, when repentance, faith, and holiness are neglected? In the day of distress we must apply to the Lord by fervent prayer. Our troubles, though we see them coming from God's hand, must drive us to him, not drive us from him. We must acknowledge him in all our ways, depend upon his wisdom, power, and goodness, and refer ourselves wholly to him, and so give him glory. Thus must we keep up communion with God; meeting him with prayers under trials, and with praises in deliverances. A believing supplicant shall not only be graciously answered as to his petition, and so have cause for praising God, but shall also have grace to praise him.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Psalms 50:7 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

שִׁמְעָ֤הshim.'Ahhear !H8085
עַמִּ֨י\׀'a.MiO people myH5971
וַאֲדַבֵּ֗רָהva.'a.da.Be.rahso let me speakH1696
יִ֭שְׂרָאֵלYis.ra.'elO IsraelH3478
וְאָעִ֣ידָהve.'a.'I.dahand I will warnH5749
בָּ֑ךְBakh<in> <the> you
אֱלֹהִ֖ים'E.lo.Him[am] GodH430
אֱלֹהֶ֣יךָ'e.lo.Hei.khaGod yourH430
אָנֹֽכִי\׃'a.No.khiIH595

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 50:7

  • Psalms 81:8

    Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;

  • Exodus 20:2

    I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

  • Jeremiah 2:9

    Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord, and with your children’s children will I plead.

  • Exodus 19:5-6

    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 is mine: And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

  • Jeremiah 2:4-5

    Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord, What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

  • Psalms 49:1

    To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world:

  • Psalms 81:10-12

    I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

  • 2 Kings 17:13

    Yet the Lord testified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the prophets, and by all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

  • Ezekiel 20:19-20

    I am the Lord your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God.

  • Ezekiel 20:7

    Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

  • Ezekiel 20:5

    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 am the Lord your God;

  • Zechariah 13:9

    And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Hear.
81:8; Isa 1:18; Jer 2:4,5,9; Mic 6:1-8
O my.
81:10-12; Ex 19:5,6; De 26:17,18; 1Sa 12:22-25
testify.
De 31:19-21; 2Ki 17:13; Ne 9:29,30; Mal 3:5
I am.
Ex 20:2; 2Ch 28:5; Eze 20:5,7,19,20; Zec 13:9

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Context

  • Psalms 50:6

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

  • Psalms 50:7

    Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.

  • Psalms 50:8

    I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

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Psalms 50:7 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Oye, pueblo mío, y hablaré: escucha, Israel, y testificaré contra ti: yo soy Dios, el Dios tuyo.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Écoute, mon peuple, et je parlerai; écoute, Israël, et je témoignerai au milieu de toi. Moi, je suis Dieu, ton Dieu.
German
Elberfelder 1871		"Höre, mein Volk, und ich will reden, Israel, und ich will wider dich zeugen! Ich, ich bin Gott, dein Gott.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Ecce enim in iniquitatibus conceptus sum, et in peccatis concepit me mater mea.