Psalm 50:6
New International Version
And the heavens proclaim his righteousness, for he is a God of justice.

New Living Translation
Then let the heavens proclaim his justice, for God himself will be the judge. Interlude

English Standard Version
The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge! Selah

Berean Standard Bible
And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah

King James Bible
And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.

New King James Version
Let the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself is Judge. Selah

New American Standard Bible
And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself is judge. Selah

NASB 1995
And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself is judge. Selah.

NASB 1977
And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself is judge. Selah.

Legacy Standard Bible
And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself is judge. Selah.

Amplified Bible
And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself is judge. Selah.

Christian Standard Bible
The heavens proclaim his righteousness, for God is the Judge. Selah

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God is the Judge. Selah “

American Standard Version
And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; For God is judge himself. [Selah

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Heaven will show his righteousness, because God is The Judge.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge. Pause.

Contemporary English Version
The heavens announce, "God is the judge, and he is always honest."

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the heavens shall declare his justice: for God is judge.

English Revised Version
And the heavens shall declare his righteousness; for God is judge himself. Selah

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The heavens announce his righteousness because God is the judge. [Selah]

Good News Translation
The heavens proclaim that God is righteous, that he himself is judge.

International Standard Version
The heavens revealed his justice, for God is himself the judge. Interlude

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the heavens declare His righteousness; For God, He is judge. Selah

Literal Standard Version
And the heavens declare His righteousness, | For God Himself is judging. Selah.

Majority Standard Bible
And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah

New American Bible
The heavens proclaim his righteousness, for God himself is the judge. Selah

NET Bible
The heavens declare his fairness, for God is judge. (Selah)

New Revised Standard Version
The heavens declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah

New Heart English Bible
The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.

World English Bible
The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.

Young's Literal Translation
And the heavens declare His righteousness, For God Himself is judge. Selah.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Mighty One Calls
5“Gather to Me My saints, who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.” 6And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah 7“Hear, O My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God.…

Cross References
Hebrews 12:23
in joyful assembly, to the congregation of the firstborn, enrolled in heaven. You have come to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of the righteous made perfect,

Psalm 7:11
God is a righteous judge and a God who feels indignation each day.

Psalm 9:4
For You have upheld my just cause; You sit on Your throne judging righteously.

Psalm 19:1
The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands.

Psalm 75:7
but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another.

Psalm 89:5
The heavens praise Your wonders, O LORD--Your faithfulness as well--in the assembly of the holy ones.

Psalm 96:13
before the LORD, for He is coming--He is coming to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples in His faithfulness.


Treasury of Scripture

And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.

heavens

Psalm 97:6
The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.

Romans 2:5
But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

Revelation 16:5-7
And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus…

God

Psalm 75:7
But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

Genesis 18:25
That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

John 5:22,23
For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: …

Selah

Psalm 7:3-5
O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands; …

Psalm 9:16
The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

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Psalm 50
1. The majesty of God in the church
5. His order to gather his saints
7. The pleasure of God is not in ceremonies
14. but in sincerity of obedience














(6) The heavens.--Here is an exceedingly fine touch. In obedience to the Divine summons the heavens are heard acknowledging the right of God to arraign the nations before Him in virtue of His moral sway. Render the verb in the present: And the heavens declare. The verse is adapted to Psalm 97:6.

In the language of modern thought, order and law in the physical world are an evidence of an ordered moral government, and the obedience of the unconscious stars to that sway which, as Wordsworth says, "preserves them from wrong," is a challenge to man to submit himself consciously to the same will.

Verse 6. - And the heavens shall declare his righteousness. The angelic host, which comes to witness the judgment of Israel (ver. 4), shall proclaim it a righteous judgment. For God is Judge himself. And he will certainly "do right" (Genesis 18:25).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
And the heavens
שָׁמַ֣יִם (šā·ma·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 8064: Heaven, sky

proclaim
וַיַּגִּ֣ידוּ (way·yag·gî·ḏū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 5046: To be conspicuous

His righteousness,
צִדְק֑וֹ (ṣiḏ·qōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6664: The right, equity, prosperity

for
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

God
אֱלֹהִ֓ים ׀ (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

Himself
ה֣וּא (hū)
Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

is Judge.
שֹׁפֵ֖ט (šō·p̄êṭ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 8199: To judge, pronounce sentence, to vindicate, punish, to govern, to litigate

Selah
סֶֽלָה׃ (se·lāh)
Interjection
Strong's 5542: Suspension, pause


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