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Psalm 50:1 KJV
Psalms · chapter 50 · verse 1
A Psalm of Asaph.The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.Psalm 50:1 · King James Version
Psalm 50:1 in context
1The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.
3Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.
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Key words (Strong's)
- mightyʼêlstrengthH410 →
- spokendâbarperhaps properly, to arrangeH1696 →
- calledqârâʼto call out toH7121 →
- risingmizrâchsunriseH4217 →
- earthʼeretsthe earthH776 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
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It is probable that Asaph was not only the chief musician, who was to put a tune to this psalm, but that he was himself the penman of it; for we read that in Hezekiah's time they praised God in the words of David and of Asaph the seer, Ch2 29:30. Here is, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-6