geneva - Psalms:47-50

geneva@Psalms:47:1 @ «To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.» O (note:)Here is figured Christ to whom all his should give willing obedience, and who would show himself terrible to the wicked.(:note) clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.

geneva@Psalms:47:2 @ For the Lord is high, and terrible: a great King ouer all the earth.

geneva@Psalms:47:3 @ He shall (note:)He has made the Jews who were the keepers of the law and prophets, schoolmasters to the Gentiles, that they would with gladness obey them.(:note) subdue the people under us, and the nations under our feet.

geneva@Psalms:47:4 @ He shall choose (note:)God has chosen us above all other nations, to enjoy a most glorious inheritance.(:note) our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:47:5 @ God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the (note:)He alludes to the trumpets that were blown at solemn feasts: but he further signifies the triumph of Christ and his glorious ascension into the heavens.(:note) sound of a trumpet.

geneva@Psalms:47:6 @ Sing prayses to God, sing prayses: sing prayses vnto our King, sing prayses.

geneva@Psalms:47:7 @ For God [is] the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with (note:)He requires that understanding be joined with singing, lest the Name of God be profaned with vain crying.(:note) understanding.

geneva@Psalms:47:8 @ God reigneth ouer the heathen: God sitteth vpon his holy throne.

geneva@Psalms:47:9 @ The princes of the people are gathered together, [even] the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of the earth [belong] unto God: he (note:)He praises God's highness, for that he joins the great princes of the world (whom he calls shields) to the fellowship of his Church.(:note) is greatly exalted.

geneva@Psalms:48:1 @ «(note:)Some put this difference between a song and psalm, saying that it is called a song when there is no instrument but the voice, and the song of the psalm is when the instruments begin and the voice follows.(:note) A Song [and] Psalm for the sons of Korah.» Great [is] the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the Even though God shows his wonders through all the world, yet he will be chiefly praised in his Church. city of our God, [in] the mountain of his holiness.

geneva@Psalms:48:2 @ Beautiful for situation, the (note:)Because the word of salvation came there to all who would believe.(:note) joy of the whole earth, [is] mount Zion, [on] the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

geneva@Psalms:48:3 @ God is known in her palaces for a (note:)Unless God is the defence of it, neither situation nor munition can prevail.(:note) refuge.

geneva@Psalms:48:4 @ For, lo, the kings were (note:)They conspired and went against God's people.(:note) assembled, they passed by together.

geneva@Psalms:48:5 @ They saw [(note:)The enemies were afraid at the sight of the city.(:note) it, and] so they marvelled; they were troubled, [and] hasted away.

geneva@Psalms:48:6 @ Feare came there vpon them, and sorowe, as vpon a woman in trauaile.

geneva@Psalms:48:7 @ Thou breakest the ships (note:)That is, of Cilicia or of the Mediterranean sea.(:note) of Tarshish with an east wind.

geneva@Psalms:48:8 @ As we have (note:)That is, of our fathers: so have we proved: or God has performed his promise.(:note) heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:48:9 @ We waite for thy louing kindnes, O God, in the middes of thy Temple.

geneva@Psalms:48:10 @ According to thy name, O God, so [is] thy praise unto the ends of the (note:)In all places where your Name will be heard of, men will praise you when they hear of your marvellous works.(:note) earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.

geneva@Psalms:48:11 @ Let (note:)Let Jerusalem and the cities of Judea rejoice, for your just judgments against your enemies.(:note) mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

geneva@Psalms:48:12 @

geneva@Psalms:48:13 @ Marke well the wall thereof: beholde her towres, that ye may tell your posteritie.

geneva@Psalms:48:14 @ For this God is our God for euer and euer: he shall be our guide vnto the death.

geneva@Psalms:49:1 @ «To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah.» Hear (note:)He will intreat how God governs the world by his providence which cannot be perceived by the judgment of the flesh.(:note) this, all [ye] people; give ear, all [ye] inhabitants of the world:

geneva@Psalms:49:2 @ As well lowe as hie, both rich and poore.

geneva@Psalms:49:3 @ My mouth shal speake of wisdome, and the meditation of mine heart is of knowledge.

geneva@Psalms:49:4 @ I will incline mine eare to a parable, and vtter my graue matter vpon the harpe.

geneva@Psalms:49:5 @ Wherefore should I (note:)Though wickedness reigns and enemies rage, seeing God will execute his judgments against the wicked at a suitable time.(:note) fear in the days of evil, [when] the iniquity of my heels shall compass me about?

geneva@Psalms:49:6 @ They that trust in their (note:)To trust in riches is madness, seeing they can neither restore life, nor prolong it.(:note) wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

geneva@Psalms:49:7 @ Yet a man can by no meanes redeeme his brother: he can not giue his raunsome to God,

geneva@Psalms:49:8 @ (For the redemption of their soul [is] (note:)That is, so rare or not to be found, as prophecy was precious in the days of Eli, (1Sa_3:1).(:note) precious, Meaning it is impossible to live for ever: also that life and death are only in God's hands. and it ceaseth for ever:)

geneva@Psalms:49:9 @ That he may liue still for euer, and not see the graue.

geneva@Psalms:49:10 @ For he seeth [that] wise men (note:)In that that death makes no difference between the persons.(:note) die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to That is, not to their children, but to strangers. Yet the wicked profit not by these examples, but still dream of immortality on earth. others.

geneva@Psalms:49:11 @ Yet they thinke, their houses, and their habitations shall continue for euer, euen from generation to generation, and call their lands by their names.

geneva@Psalms:49:12 @ Nevertheless man [being] in honour abideth not: he is like the (note:)Concerning the death of the body.(:note) beasts [that] perish.

geneva@Psalms:49:13 @ This their way [is] their folly: yet their posterity (note:)They speak and do the same thing that their fathers did.(:note) approve their sayings. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:49:14 @

geneva@Psalms:49:15 @ But God shall deliuer my soule from the power of the graue: for he will receiue me. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:49:16 @ Be not thou afrayd when one is made rich, and when the glory of his house is increased.

geneva@Psalms:49:17 @ For he shall take nothing away when he dieth, neither shal his pompe descende after him.

geneva@Psalms:49:18 @ Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and (note:)The flatterers praise them who live in delight and pleasures.(:note) [men] will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself.

geneva@Psalms:49:19 @

geneva@Psalms:49:20 @ Man [that is] in honour, and (note:)He condemns man's ingratitude, who having received excellent gifts from God, abuses them like a beast to his own condemnation.(:note) understandeth not, is like the beasts [that] perish.

geneva@Psalms:50:1 @ «A Psalm of (note:)Who was either the author, or a chief singer, to whom it was committed.(:note) Asaph.» The mighty God, [even] the LORD, hath spoken, and called the To plead against his deceitful people before heaven and earth. earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

geneva@Psalms:50:2 @ Out of Zion, the (note:)Because God had chosen it to have his Name there called on and also his image shines there in the doctrine of the law.(:note) perfection of beauty, God hath shined.

geneva@Psalms:50:3 @ Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a (note:)As when God gave his law in mount Sinai he appeared terrible with thunder and tempest, so will he appear terrible to take account for the keeping of it.(:note) fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

geneva@Psalms:50:4 @ He shall call to the heavens from above, and to (note:)As witnessing against the hypocrites.(:note) the earth, that he may judge his people.

geneva@Psalms:50:5 @ Gather my (note:)God in respect to his elect calls the whole body holy, saints and his people.(:note) saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by Who should know that sacrifices are sealed by the covenant between God and his people, and not set religion in it. sacrifice.

geneva@Psalms:50:6 @ And the heauens shall declare his righteousnes: for God is iudge himselfe. Selah.

geneva@Psalms:50:7 @ Heare, O my people, and I wil speake: heare, O Israel, and I wil testifie vnto thee: for I am God, euen thy God.

geneva@Psalms:50:8 @ I will not (note:)For I pass not for sacrifices unless the true use is there, which is to confirm your faith.(:note) reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, [to have been] continually before me.

geneva@Psalms:50:9 @ I will take no bullocke out of thine house, nor goates out of thy foldes.

geneva@Psalms:50:10 @

geneva@Psalms:50:11 @ I knowe all the foules on the mountaines: and the wilde beastes of the fielde are mine.

geneva@Psalms:50:12 @ If I bee hungry, I will not tell thee: for the world is mine, and all that therein is.

geneva@Psalms:50:13 @

geneva@Psalms:50:14 @ Offer unto God thanksgiving; and (note:)Show yourself mindful of God's benefits by thanksgiving.(:note) pay thy vows unto the most High:

geneva@Psalms:50:15 @ And call vpon me in the day of trouble: so will I deliuer thee, and thou shalt glorifie me.

geneva@Psalms:50:16 @ But unto the wicked God saith, (note:)Why do you pretend to be of my people and talk of my covenant, seeing that you are a hypocrite?(:note) What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or [that] thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?

geneva@Psalms:50:17 @ Seeing thou hatest (note:)To live according to my word.(:note) instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

geneva@Psalms:50:18 @ When thou sawest a thief, then (note:)He shows what the fruits of them who contemn God's word are.(:note) thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

geneva@Psalms:50:19 @ Thou giuest thy mouth to euill, and with thy tongue thou forgest deceit.

geneva@Psalms:50:20 @ Thou (note:)He notes the cruelty of hypocrites who in their talk or judgment do not spare their own mother's sons.(:note) sittest [and] speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

geneva@Psalms:50:21 @ These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether [such an one] as thyself: [but] I will reprove thee, and (note:)I will write all your wicked deeds in a roll, and make you read and acknowledge them, whether you will or not.(:note) set [them] in order before thine eyes.

geneva@Psalms:50:22 @ Oh cosider this, ye that forget God, least I teare you in pieces, & there be none that can deliuer you.

geneva@Psalms:50:23 @ Whoso offereth (note:)Under which is contained faith and invocation.(:note) praise glorifieth me: and to him that As God has appointed. ordereth [his] conversation [aright] will I That is, declare myself to be his Saviour. shew the salvation of God.

geneva@Psalms:51:1 @ «To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet (note:)To reprove him, because he had committed horrible sins, and lain in the same without repentance more then a whole year.(:note) came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.» Have mercy upon me, O God, As his sins were many and great, so he requires that God would give him the feeling of his excellent and abundant mercies. according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.