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Salmos 50:4
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Convocar� � los cielos de arriba, Y � la tierra, para juzgar � su pueblo.
Convocar� a los cielos de arriba, y a la tierra, para juzgar a su pueblo.
Convocar� a los cielos de arriba, y a la tierra, para juzgar a su pueblo.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
call: Psalms 50:6, Deuteronomy 4:36, Deuteronomy 30:19, Deuteronomy 31:28, Deuteronomy 32:1, Isaiah 1:2, Micah 6:1, Micah 6:2
judge: Psalms 96:13, Psalms 98:9, Isaiah 11:3, Isaiah 11:4, John 5:22, John 5:23
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:36 - For the Job 14:15 - shalt call Job 40:6 - out Psalms 51:4 - that thou Psalms 135:14 - the Lord Ecclesiastes 11:9 - know Isaiah 5:3 - judge Isaiah 51:5 - mine Jeremiah 6:18 - hear Acts 24:25 - judgment Hebrews 10:30 - The Lord shall
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth,.... To hear what he shall say, when he will no longer keep silence; and to be witnesses of the justice of his proceedings; see Isaiah 1:2. The Targum interprets this of the angels above on high, and of the righteous on the earth below; and so Aben Ezra, Kimchi, and Ben Melech, explain it of the angels of heaven, and of the inhabitants of the earth;
that he may judge his people; not that they, the heavens and the earth, the inhabitants of either, may judge his people; but the Lord himself, as in Psalms 50:6; and this designs not the judgment of the whole world, nor that of his own covenant people, whom he judges when he corrects them in love, that they might not be condemned with the world; when he vindicates them, and avenges them on their enemies, and when he protects and saves them; but the judgment of the Jewish nation, his professing people, the same that Peter speaks of, 1 Peter 4:17.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He shall call to the heavens from above - He will call on all the universe; he will summon all worlds. The meaning here is, not that he will gather those who are in heaven to be judged, but that he will call on the inhabitants of all worlds to be his witnesses; to bear their attestation to the justice of his sentence. See Psalms 50:6. The phrase “from above” does not, of course, refer to the heavens as being above God, but to the heavens as they appear to human beings to be above themselves.
And to the earth - To all the dwellers upon the earth; “to the whole universe.” He makes this universal appeal with the confident assurance that his final sentence will be approved; that the universe will see and admit that it is just. See Revelation 15:3; Revelation 19:1-3. There can be no doubt that the universe, as such, will approve the ultimate sentence that will be pronounced on mankind.
That he may judge his people - That is, all these arrangements - this coming with fire and tempest, and this universal appeal - will be prepatory to the judging of his people, or in order that the judgment may be conducted with due solemnity and propriety. The idea is, that an event so momentous should be conducted in a way suited to produce an appropriate impression; so conducted, that there would be a universal conviction of the justice and impartiality of the sentence. The reference here is particularly to his professed “people,” that is, to determine whether they were truly his, for that is the main subject of the psalm, though the “language” is derived from the solemnities appropriate to the universal judgment.
