Psalms Chapter 50 verse 7 Holy Bible
Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, `even' thy God.
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Give ear, O my people, to my words; O Israel, I will be a witness against you; I am God, even your God.
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Hear, my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, thy God.
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Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
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Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
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"Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
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Hear, O My people, and I speak, O Israel, and I testify against thee, God, thy God `am' I.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 7-15. - "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 Matthew 25:31-40). 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. ยง 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 We know, too, that, in the later monarchy, sacrifice to so great an extent superseded true spiritual worship among the Israelites themselves, that it became an offence to God, and was spoken of in terms of reprobation (Isaiah 1:11-13; Isaiah 66:3). Already, it would seem, this tendency was manifesting itself, and a warning from Heaven was needed against it. Verse 7. - Hear, O my people, and I will speak. God will not speak to deaf ears. Unless men are ready to attend to him, he keeps silence. O Israel, and I will testify against thee; or, protest unto thee (Kay, Cheyne). I am God, even thy God. And therefore am entitled to be heard.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7) Hear.--The actual judgment now opens, God asserting in impressive tones His right to preside: God, thy God, I . . . the Elohistic form of the more usual "Jehovah, thy God."
