King James Version
Psalms 50:7 in the King James Version says “Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 50 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.”
Psalms 50:7 · KJV
Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Hear”
H8085to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
“O my people”
H5971a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
“and I will speak”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
“O Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
“and I will testify”
H5749to duplicate or repeat; by implication, to protest, testify (as by reiteration); intensively, to encompass, restore (as a sort of reduplication)
“against thee I am God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
“against thee I am God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
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