Psalms 50:7

King James Version

Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Listen, my people, and I will speak;I will testify against you, Israel.I am God, your God.

Hebrew Names Version
"Hear, my people, and I will speak; Yisra'el, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

English Standard Version
"Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

New Century Version
God says, "My people, listen to me; Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

New English Translation
He says: "Listen my people! I am speaking! Listen Israel! I am accusing you! I am God, your God!

Amplified Bible
"Hear, O My people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify against you: I am God, your God.

New American Standard Bible
"Hear, My people, and I will speak; Israel, I will testify against you; I am God, your God.

World English Bible
"Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Heare, O my people, and I wil speake: heare, O Israel, and I wil testifie vnto thee: for I am God, euen thy God.

Legacy Standard Bible
"Hear, O My people, and I will speak;O Israel, I will testify against you;I am God, your God.

Berean Standard Bible
"Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God.

Contemporary English Version
My people, I am God! Israel, I am your God. Listen to my charges against you.

Complete Jewish Bible
"Listen, my people, I am speaking: Isra'el, I am testifying against you, I, God, your God.

Darby Translation
Hear, my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, thy God.

Easy-to-Read Version
God says, "My people, listen to me! People of Israel, I will show my evidence against you. I am God, your God.

George Lamsa Translation
Hear, O my people, and I will speak to you; O Israel, I will testify to thee: I am God, even your God.

Good News Translation
"Listen, my people, and I will speak; I will testify against you, Israel. I am God, your God.

Lexham English Bible
"Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

Literal Translation
Hear, My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you; I am God, your God.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Sela. Heare, o my people: let me speake, let me testifie amonge you, o Israel: I am God, euen thy God.

American Standard Version
Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, even thy God.

Bible in Basic English
Give ear, O my people, to my words; O Israel, I will be a witness against you; I am God, even your God.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Hear, O My people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee:

King James Version (1611)
Heare, O my people, and I will speake, O Israel, and I will testifie against thee; I am God, euen thy God.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Heare O my people, and I wil speake: I my selfe wyll testifie vnto thee O Israel, I am the Lorde, euen thy Lorde.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Hear, my people, and I will speak to thee, O Israel: and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.

English Revised Version
Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify unto thee: I am God, even thy God.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Mi puple, here thou, and Y schal speke to Israel; and Y schal witnesse to thee, Y am God, thi God.

Update Bible Version
Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify to you: I am God, [even] your God.

Webster's Bible Translation
Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I [am] God, [even] thy God.

New King James Version
"Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you; I am God, your God!

New Living Translation
"O my people, listen as I speak. Here are my charges against you, O Israel: I am God, your God!

New Life Bible
"Listen, O My people, and I will speak. O Israel, I will speak against you. I am God, your God.

New Revised Standard
"Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will adjure thee, God, thine own God, I am: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
(49-7) Hear, O my people, and I will speak: O Israel, and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.

Revised Standard Version
"Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

Young's Literal Translation
Hear, O My people, and I speak, O Israel, and I testify against thee, God, thy God [am] I.

THE MESSAGE
"Are you listening, dear people? I'm getting ready to speak; Israel, I'm about ready to bring you to trial. This is God, your God, speaking to you. I don't find fault with your acts of worship, the frequent burnt sacrifices you offer. But why should I want your blue-ribbon bull, or more and more goats from your herds? Every creature in the forest is mine, the wild animals on all the mountains. I know every mountain bird by name; the scampering field mice are my friends. If I get hungry, do you think I'd tell you? All creation and its bounty are mine. Do you think I feast on venison? or drink draughts of goats' blood? Spread for me a banquet of praise, serve High God a feast of kept promises, And call for help when you're in trouble— I'll help you, and you'll honor me."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Hear, O My people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify against you; I am God, your God.

Contextual Overview

⁷ Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God. ⁸ I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me. ⁹ I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds. ¹⁰ For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. ¹¹ I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. ¹² If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. ¹³ Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? ¹⁴ Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High: ¹⁵ And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

Bible Verse Review
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Hear: Psalms 81:8, Isaiah 1:18, Jeremiah 2:4, Jeremiah 2:5, Jeremiah 2:9, Micah 6:1-8

O my: Psalms 81:10-12, Exodus 19:5, Exodus 19:6, Deuteronomy 26:17, Deuteronomy 26:18, 1 Samuel 12:22-25

testify: Deuteronomy 31:19-21, 2 Kings 17:13, Nehemiah 9:29, Nehemiah 9:30, Malachi 3:5

I am: Exodus 20:2, 2 Chronicles 28:5, Ezekiel 20:5, Ezekiel 20:7, Ezekiel 20:19, Ezekiel 20:20, Zechariah 13:9

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:12 - will be Deuteronomy 9:13 - I have Deuteronomy 28:58 - fear this glorious Nehemiah 13:15 - I testified Jeremiah 6:20 - To what Jeremiah 10:1 - General Micah 1:2 - let Micah 6:3 - O my 1 Timothy 4:8 - bodily

Cross-References

Genesis 14:16
And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hear, O my people,.... This is an address to the people of the Jews, whom God had chosen to be his people above all others, and who professed themselves to be his people; but now a "loammi", Hosea 1:9, was about to be written upon them, being a people uncircumcised in heart and ears, refusing to hear the great Prophet of the church, him that spake from heaven;

and I will speak: by way of accusation and charge, and in judgment against them for their sins and transgressions;

O Israel, and I will testify against thee; or "to thee" t; to thy face produce witnesses, and bring sufficient evidence to prove the things laid to thy charge,

I [am] God, [even] thy God; which is an aggravation of their sin against him, and is the reason why they should hearken to him; see

Psalms 81:10.

t בך "tibi", V. L. Vatablus; so Ainsworth.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hear, O my people, and I will speak - God himself is now introduced as speaking, and as stating the principles on which the judgment will proceed. The previous verses are introductory, or are designed to bring the scene of the judgment before the mind. The solemn scene now opens, and God himself speaks, especially as rebuking the disposition to rely on the mere forms of religion, while its spirituality and its power are denied. The purpose of the whole is, by asking how these things will appear in the judgment, to imply the vanity of “mere” forms of religion now. The particular address is made to the “people” of God, or to “Israel,” because the purpose of the psalmist was to rebuke the prevailing tendency to rely on outward forms.

O Israel, and I will testify against thee - In the judgment. In view of those scenes, and as “at” that time, I will “now” bear this solemn testimony against the views which you entertain on the subject of religion, and the practices which prevail in your worship.

I am God, even thy God - I am the true God, and therefore I have a right to speak; I am “thy” God - the God who has been the Protector of thy people - acknowledged as the God of the nation - and therefore I claim the right to declare the great principles which pertain to true worship, and which constitute true religion.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 50:7. Hear, O my people — As they were now amply informed concerning the nature and certainty of the general judgment, and were still in a state of probation, Asaph proceeds to show them the danger to which they were exposed, and the necessity of repentance and amendment, that when that great day should arrive, they might be found among those who had made a covenant with God by sacrifice. And he shows them that the sacrifice with which God would be well pleased was quite different from the bullocks, he-goats, c., which they were in the habit of offering. In short, he shows here that God has intended to abrogate those sacrifices, as being no longer of any service: for when the people began to trust in them, without looking to the thing signified, it was time to put them away. When the people began to pay Divine honours to the brazen serpent, though it was originally an ordinance of God's appointment for the healing of the Israelites, it was ordered to be taken away called nehushtan, a bit of brass; and broken to pieces. The sacrifices under the Jewish law were of God's appointment; but now that the people began to put their trust in them, God despised them.