The psalm is a warning to the pilgrim of Zion to avoid hypocrisy and
The psalmist skillfully develops this burden in a polemical fashion with its exposures of externalism and hypocrisy.
The Lord God, the Supreme Judge, levels two felony charges against His professing people.
I. Introduction: The Supreme Judge Enters to Preside (50:1-6).
II. The Supreme Judge Levels Two Charges (50:7-21).
A. First Charge: Ritualism (50:7-15);
B. Second Charge: Rebellion (50:16-21).
III. The Supreme Judge Offers a Solution (50:22-23).
“Title”:
This is the first psalm has been entitled “A Psalm of Asaph”
Sometimes the simple “Asaph” may stand for the longer expression “the sons of Asaph”.
Psalm 50:1 The mighty God, [even] the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
Psalm 50:2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
Psalm 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.
Hebrews 12:29 For our God [is] a consuming fire.
Psalm 50:5 Gather my saints together unto Me; those that have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.
Psalm 50:16 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?
The wicked assumed that they were true Israelites.
They were familiar with the words of God's statutes, and with the
While in their own persons they set them at nought (verses 18-20).
God declares that they have no right to assume to be teachers of others until they are able to teach themselves.
They are unfit even to "take his covenant in their mouth.":
This is saying, why do you say you are a believer when you are not?
Psalm 50:22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear [you] in pieces, and [there be] none to deliver."
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