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title: "Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 5"
author: "John Calvin"
translator: "James Anderson"
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section: 72 of 159
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cite: "John Calvin, tr. James Anderson, Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 5, section 72. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-the-psalms-volume-5/72/"
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# Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 5

*John Calvin, tr. James Anderson*

Calvin on the Psalms, volume 5 of 5.

## 72. Psalm 50

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[¶0] A Song, of Asaph

[¶1] 1 The God of gods, Jehovah hath spoken, And called the earth From the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

[¶2] 2 Out of Zion, the Perfection of beauty, God hath shined.

[¶3] 3 Come shall our God, and shall not keep silence; A fire before him shall devour, And round about him a tempest shall rage exceedingly.

[¶4] 4 He shall call to the heavens from above, And to the earth, to judge his people.

[¶5] 5 “Gather together to me my meek ones, (will he say), “Those who strike a covenant with me over sacrifices.”

[¶6] 6 And declare shall the heavens his righteousness: For God is judge himself. Selah.

[¶7] 7 “Hear, O my people! and I will speak; “O Israel! and I will announce to thee: “God, [even] thy God am I.

[¶8] 8 “Not for thy sacrifices will I reprove thee; “And thy burnt-offerings are before me continually.

[¶9] 9 “I will not take out of thy house a calf, “Nor out of thy folds he-goats:

[¶10] 10 “For mine are all the beasts of the forest, “The cattle upon a thousand hills.

[¶11] 11 “I know all the birds of the mountains; “And the wild beasts of the field are at my command.

[¶12] 12 “If I am hungry, I will not tell thee: “For mine is the world and the fullness thereof.

[¶13] 13 “Will I eat the flesh of bulls, “And the blood of goats will I drink?

[¶14] 14 “Sacrifice unto God praise, “And pay unto the Most High thy vows.

[¶15] 15 “Call upon me in the day of trouble; “I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

[¶16] 16 “But unto the wicked said hath God, “What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, “[Or] that thou shouldest take my covenant into thy lips?

[¶17] 17 “Also thou hatest correction, “And castest my words behind thee.

[¶18] 18 “If thou seest a thief, thou wilt run with him, “And with adulterers is thy portion.

[¶19] 19 “Thy mouth thou puttest forth to evil, “And thy tongue frameth deceit,

[¶20] 20 “Thou wilt sit against thy brother; “Thou wilt speak against the sons of thy mother; “Thou wilt set forth slander.

[¶21] 21 “These things thou hast done, and I kept silence; “Thou thoughtest that I would be like thyself’: “I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

[¶22] 22 “Now consider this, ye who forget God, “Lest I seize upon you and there be none to deliver.

[¶23] 23 “He who sacrificeth praise will glorify me: “And he who ordereth his way to him will I show the salvation of God.”