Psalms 50:3
God shall come manifestly: our God shall come, and shall not keep silence. A fire shall burn before him: and a mighty tempest shall be round about him.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2out of Sion the loveliness of his beauty.
4He shall call heaven from above, and the earth, to judge his people.
Cross References
Exodus 19:18And all mount Sinai was on a smoke: because the Lord was come down upon it in fire, and the smoke arose from it as out of a furnace: and all the mount was terrible.
Numbers 16:35And a fire coming out from the Lord, destroyed the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.
1 Kings 19:11And he said to him: Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord: and behold the Lord passeth, and a great and strong wind before the Lord over throwing the mountains, and breaking the rocks in pieces: the Lord is not in the wind, and after the wind an earthquake: the Lord is not in the earthquake.
Psalms 18:9There went up a smoke in his wrath: and a fire flamed from his face: coals were kindled by it.
Psalms 50:21these things hast thou done, and I was silent. Thou thoughtest unjustly that I should be like to thee: but I will reprove thee, and set before thy face.
Psalms 83:1A canticle of a psalm for Asaph.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 50:2-7
The Majesty of Messiah. 1 The mighty God, even the Lord , hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. 2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. 3 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him. 4 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people. 5 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.… Read the whole commentary →