Psalms 50:20

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 50:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother - To the general character of falsehood and slander there is now added the fact that they were guil...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Thou (p) sittest [and] speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son. (p) He notes the cruelty of hypocrites who in their tal...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

L. God Looks to Conduct rather than to Sacrifice. For the attitude to sacrifice, cf. Psalms 40*. Psalms 50:1-6 . The expected Theophany....
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

thine own mother's son. Figure of speech Periphrasis , for emphasis.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son. Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother. "Sittes...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The title ( A PsALM of Asaph ) is discussed in Intro, to Book 3, where the other Pss. of Asaph are found. The present Ps. is one of solemn warning to...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Sittest. — Rather, as in Psalms 10:8 ; Psalms 17:12 , lurkest. Slanderest. — Literally, givest a thrust ; but, from the parallelism, used o...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 50:1-23 This is the first of the Asaph psalms, and is separated from the other eleven ( Psalms 73:1-28 ; Psalms 74:1-23 ; Psalms 75:1-10...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

God's Warning to the Wicked Psalms 50:16-23 These searching words are for us all. We have no right to declare God's statutes, if our hearts hid...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The singer addresses himself in the name of God to the whole earth, that it may hear and learn an important lesson. The call is made in the first ver...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

This seems to be a solemn remonstrance and expostulation with the unbelieving and hypocritical Jews, who rested in the means, and totally overlooked...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thou sittest ,.... Either in the chair of Moses, or on the seat of judgment, in the great sanhedrim of the nation; or, as Aben Ezra paraphrases it,...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son. Ver. 20. Thou sittest ] In the seat of the scornful, on t...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

When thou sawest a thief Instead of reproving him, and witnessing against him, as those should do that declare God's statutes, or that profess his...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Character of the Wicked. 16 But unto the wicked God saith, What h...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Thou dost not only speak evil in a sudden passion, or upon some great provocation, but this is thy constant and deliberate practice and business, whi...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

God Speaks To The ‘Wicked', The More Overt Covenant Breakers, Whom He Sees As Blatantly Hypocritical, And Outlines The Activities That Cut Them Off...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Superscription . “ A Psalm of Asaph .” Asaph was “a Levite, son of Berachiah, one of the leaders of David’s choir ( 1 Chronicles 6:39...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 50:1-4 . The mighty God, even the LORD, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun until the going down thereof. Out of Zi...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

A Psalm of Asaph. It is mentioned, in the life of Hezekiah, that «the king and the princes commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the Lord with th...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

In the first part of this Psalm God has solemnly expostulated with his people as to the utter worthlessness of sacrifice and ceremony apart from livi...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Asaph, to whom this psalm is inscribed, was a seer, as well as head of the singers. He was also the author of twelve psalms, extremely beautiful, and...
The Biblical Illustrator

The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth, from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof. The first of the Asaph...
The Biblical Illustrator

But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare My statutes? The mere formalist and the spiritualist in religion I. The mere for...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE psalmist announces an appearance of God to his people "out of Zion," and a pronouncement of judgment upon them, which all heave...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Of the True Service of God. A psalm of Asaph, one of the directors of the Temple-chorus at the time of David, distinguished for musical and poetic...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Thou sit test and speakest against thy brother, the nearest relative by blood not being safe against the tongue of the slanderer and reviler; thou s...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Timothy 3:11 ; Leviticus 19:16 ; Luke 22:65 ; Matthew 10:21 ; Matthew 5:11 ; Proverbs 10:18 ; Psalms 31:18 ; Revelation 12:10 ; Titus 2:3...

²⁰ Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 50:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 50:20