
Text -- Psalms 50:5 (NET)




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Wesley: Psa 50:5 - -- O ye angels, summon and fetch them to my tribunal. Which is poetically spoken, to continue the metaphor, and representation of the judgment.
O ye angels, summon and fetch them to my tribunal. Which is poetically spoken, to continue the metaphor, and representation of the judgment.

Wesley: Psa 50:5 - -- The Israelites, whom God had chosen and separated them from all the nations of the earth, to be an holy and peculiar people to himself, and they also ...
The Israelites, whom God had chosen and separated them from all the nations of the earth, to be an holy and peculiar people to himself, and they also had solemnly devoted themselves to God; all which aggravated their apostacy.

Wesley: Psa 50:5 - -- Who have entered into covenant with me, and have ratified that covenant by sacrifice. This seems to be added, to acquaint them with the proper nature,...
Who have entered into covenant with me, and have ratified that covenant by sacrifice. This seems to be added, to acquaint them with the proper nature, use and end of sacrifices, which were principally appointed to be signs and seals of the covenant made between God and his people; and consequently to convince them of their great mistake in trusting to their outward sacrifices, when they neglected the very life and soul of them, which was the keeping of their covenant with God.

JFB: Psa 50:5 - -- Alluding to the dividing of a victim of sacrifice, by which covenants were ratified, the parties passing between the divided portions (compare Gen 15:...
TSK -> Psa 50:5
TSK: Psa 50:5 - -- Gather : Mat 24:31; 1Th 4:16, 1Th 4:17; 2Th 2:1
my saints : Psa 97:10; Deu 33:2, Deu 33:3; Pro 2:8; Isa 13:3; Zec 14:5; 1Co 6:2, 1Co 6:3; 1Th 3:13; Ju...

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Barnes -> Psa 50:5
Barnes: Psa 50:5 - -- Gather my saints together unto me - This is an address to the messengers employed for assembling those who are to be judged. Similar language i...
Gather my saints together unto me - This is an address to the messengers employed for assembling those who are to be judged. Similar language is used by the Saviour Mat 24:31 : "And he (the Son of Man) shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other."The idea is, that God will bring them, or assemble them together. All this is language derived froth the notion of a universal judgment, "as if"the scattered people of God were thus gathered together by special messengers sent out for this purpose. The word "saints"here refers to those who are truly his people. The object - the purpose - of the judgment is to assemble in heaven those who are sincerely his friends; or, as the Saviour expresses it Mat 24:31, his "elect."Yet in order to this, or in order to determine who "are"his true people, there will be a larger gathering - an assembling of all the dwellers on the earth.
Those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice - Exo 24:6-7. Compare the notes at Heb 9:19-22. The idea here is, that they are the professed people of God; that they have entered into a solemn covenant-relation to him, or have bound themselves in the most solemn manner to be his; that they have done this in connection with the sacrifices which accompany their worship; that they have brought their sacrifices or bloody offerings as a pledge that they mean to be his, and will be his. Over these solemn sacrifices made to him, they have bound themselves to be the Lord’ s; and the purpose of the judgment now is, to determine whether this was sincere, and whether they have been faithful to their vows. As applied to professed believers under the Christian system, the "idea"here presented would be, that the vow to be the Lord’ s has been made over the body and blood of the Redeemer once offered as a sacrifice, and that by partaking of the memorials of that sacrifice they have entered into a solemn "covenant"to be his. Nothing more solemn can be conceived than a "covenant"or pledge entered into in such a manner; and yet nothing is more painfully certain than that the process of a judgment will be necessary to determine in what cases it is genuine, for the mere outward act, no matter how solemn, does not of necessity decide the question whether he who performs it will enter into heaven.
Poole -> Psa 50:5
Poole: Psa 50:5 - -- O ye angels, summon and fetch them to my tribunal; which is poetically spoken; not as if they were actually to do so, but only to continue the metap...
O ye angels, summon and fetch them to my tribunal; which is poetically spoken; not as if they were actually to do so, but only to continue the metaphor and representation of the judgment here mentioned.
My saints the delinquents, the Israelites, whom he calls saints ; partly, because they were all by profession a holy people , as they are called, Deu 14:2 ; partly, by an irony, intimating how unworthy they were of that name; and partly, as an argument or evidence against them, because God had chosen and separated them from all the nations of the earth, to be a holy and peculiar people to himself, and they also had solemnly and frequently consecrated and devoted themselves to God, and to his faithful service; all which did greatly aggravate their present apostacy.
Those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice i.e. which have entered into covenant with me, and have ratified that covenant with me by sacrifice, not only in their parents, Exo 24:4 , &c., but also in their own persons from time to time, even as oft as they offer sacrifices to me. This clause seems to be added here, to acquaint them with the proper nature, use, and end of sacrifices, which were principally appointed to be signs and seals of the covenant made between God and his people; and consequently to convince them of their great mistake and wickedness in trusting to their outward sacrifices, when they neglect the very life and soul of them, which was the keeping of their covenant with God; and withal to diminish that overweaning conceit which they had of sacrifices, and to prepare the way for the abolition of them, as being only necessary to confirm the covenant; which being once for all confirmed by the blood of Christ, they might without any inconvenience be laid aside and abrogated.
Haydock -> Psa 50:5
Haydock: Psa 50:5 - -- Me. I do not forget it, but am covered with shame. (Calmet) ---
Sin is our greatest enemy, and continually cries for vengeance. (Haydock) ---
Wh...
Me. I do not forget it, but am covered with shame. (Calmet) ---
Sin is our greatest enemy, and continually cries for vengeance. (Haydock) ---
While David did not confess, his sin lay heavy upon him. (Worthington)
Gill -> Psa 50:5
Gill: Psa 50:5 - -- Gather my saints together unto me,.... These words are spoken by Christ to the heavens and the earth; that is, to the angels, the ministers of the Gos...
Gather my saints together unto me,.... These words are spoken by Christ to the heavens and the earth; that is, to the angels, the ministers of the Gospel, to gather in, by the ministry of the word, his elect ones among the Gentiles; see Mat 24:30; called his "saints", who had an interest in his favour and lovingkindness, and were sanctified or set apart for his service and glory;
those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice; or, "who have made my covenant by, or on sacrifice" s; the covenant of grace, which was made with Christ from everlasting, and which was confirmed by his blood and sacrifice; this his people may be said to make with God in him, he being their head, surety, and representative: now these covenant ones he will have gathered in to himself by the effectual calling, which is usually done by the ministry of the word; for this is not to be understood of the gathering of all nations to him, before him as a Judge; but of his special people to him as a Saviour, the "Shiloh", to whom the gathering of the people was to be, Gen 49:10.

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NET Notes: Psa 50:5 Heb “the cutters of my covenant according to sacrifice.” A sacrifice accompanied the covenant-making ceremony and formally ratified the ag...
Geneva Bible -> Psa 50:5
Geneva Bible: Psa 50:5 Gather my ( f ) saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by ( g ) sacrifice.
( f ) God in respect to his elect calls the whol...

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TSK Synopsis -> Psa 50:1-23
TSK Synopsis: Psa 50:1-23 - --1 The majesty of God in the church.5 His order to gather his saints.7 The pleasure of God is not in ceremonies,14 but in sincerity of obedience.
MHCC -> Psa 50:1-6
MHCC: Psa 50:1-6 - --This psalm is a psalm of instruction. It tells of the coming of Christ and the day of judgment, in which God will call men to account; and the Holy Gh...
Matthew Henry -> Psa 50:1-6
Matthew Henry: Psa 50:1-6 - -- It is probable that Asaph was not only the chief musician, who was to put a tune to this psalm, but that he was himself the penman of it; for we rea...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Psa 50:4-6
Keil-Delitzsch: Psa 50:4-6 - --
The judgment scene. To the heavens above ( מעל , elsewhere a preposition, here, as in Gen 27:39; Gen 49:25, an adverb, desuper , superne ) and...
Constable: Psa 42:1--72:20 - --II. Book 2: chs. 42--72
In Book 1 we saw that all the psalms except 1, 2, 10, and 33 claimed David as their writ...

Constable: Psa 50:1-23 - --Psalm 50
This psalm pictures God seated in His heavenly throne room. He has two indictments against His ...
