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Psalms 50:21

King James Version (KJV)

“In our prayers we talk to God, in our Bible study God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.”
— D.L. Moody

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These [things] hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether [such an one] as thyself: [but] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.

Psalms 50:21 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Psalms 50:21

Theological / Devotional

I kept silence. God bore with the folly of the wicked until it was time for Him to interpose in judgment.

As thyself. The hypocrite thought that God was like him, and would be satisfied with mere formalism in religion and external piety as a cloak for personal sin. But God regards principle, justice, sincerity, as prerequisite to spiritual worship. The sinner ever tends to conceive of God in terms of his own sinful purposes.

Set them in order. God now opens to the scrutiny of the sinner the nature and extent of his guilt before the judgment seat, prior to imposing the penalty.

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