Bible Strands
Psalms 50:5
“Gather to Me My saints, who made a covenant with Me by sacrifice.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God speaks, having just summoned the heavens and earth to witness His judgment of His people (v. 4). He calls together those bound to Him by covenant.
The words — כָּרַת (kā·rat, "to cut") is the Hebrew verb for making a covenant, rooted in the ritual of cutting animals in two (Genesis 15:10); חֲסִידִים (cha·si·dim, "the devoted ones") identifies the called group by covenant loyalty rather than ethnicity.
The thread — The covenant-sealed-by-sacrifice pattern runs from Sinai (Exodus 24:3–8) through the cup of the New Covenant (Matthew 26:28) to the "eternal covenant" in Hebrews 13:20.
Why it lands — The verse grounds a person's standing before God in the sacrificial covenant, not in their own moral record. It asks the reader to see that belonging to God is a bond sealed by blood, not a status earned by performance.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
Cross-references
- Hebrews 13:20 Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep,
- Exodus 24:3 When Moses came and told the people all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all responded with one voice: “All the words that the LORD has spoken, we will do.”
- Matthew 26:28 This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
- Hebrews 12:24 to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.
- Deuteronomy 33:2 He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads of holy ones, with flaming fire at His right hand.
- Psalms 30:4 Sing to the LORD, O you His saints, and praise His holy name.
- Psalms 97:10 Hate evil, O you who love the LORD! He preserves the souls of His saints; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
- Matthew 24:31 And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
- Hebrews 9:10 They consist only in food and drink and special washings—external regulations imposed until the time of reform.
- Proverbs 2:8 to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints.