Psalms 50:5

He says: ¹  “Assemble my covenant people before me, ²  those who ratified a covenant with me by sacrifice!” ³ 

Ex 24:3-8; De 33:2,3; Ps 97:10; Pr 2:8; Isa 13:3; Zec 14:5; Mt 24:31; Mt 26:28; 1Co 6:2,3; 1Th 3:13; 1Th 4:16,17; 2Th 2:1; Heb 9:10-23; Heb 12:24; Heb 13:20; Jude 1:14

¹ tn The words “he says” are supplied in the translation for clarification. God’s summons to the defendant follows.

² tn Or “Gather to me my covenant people.” The Hebrew term חָסִיד (khasid, “covenant people”) elsewhere in the psalms is used in a positive sense of God’s loyal followers (see the note at Ps 4:3), but here, as the following line makes clear, the term has a neutral sense and simply refers to those who have outwardly sworn allegiance to God, not necessarily to those whose loyalty is genuine.

³ tn Heb “the cutters of my covenant according to sacrifice.” A sacrifice accompanied the covenant-making ceremony and formally ratified the agreement (see Exod 24:3-8).