Psalm 50:7 {49:7}
Good News Translation
"Listen, my people, and I will speak; I will testify against you, Israel. I am God, your God.

New Revised Standard Version
“Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

Contemporary English Version
My people, I am God! Israel, I am your God. Listen to my charges against you.

New American Bible
“Listen, my people, I will speak; Israel, I will testify against you; God, your God, am I.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hear, O my people, and I will speak: O Israel, and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hear, O my people, and I will speak: O Israel, and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.

Hear

Psalm 81:8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me,

Isaiah 1:18 And then come, and accuse me, saith the Lord: if your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool.

Jeremiah 2:4,5,9 Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all ye families of the house of Israel: . . .

Micah 6:1-8 Hear ye what the Lord saith: Arise, contend thou in judgment against the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice. . . .

O my

Psalm 81:10-12 For I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. . . .

Exodus 19:5,6 If therefore you will hear my voice, and keep my covenant, you shall be my peculiar possession above all people: for all the earth is mine. . . .

Deuteronomy 26:17,18 Thou hast chosen the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways and keep his ceremonies, and precepts, and judgments, and obey his command. . . .

1 Samuel 12:22-25 And the Lord will not forsake his people for his great name's sake: because the Lord hath sworn to make you his people. . . .

testify

Deuteronomy 31:19-21 Now therefore write you this canticle, and teach the children of Israel: that they may know it by heart, and sing it by mouth, and this song may be unto me for a testimony among the children of Israel. . . .

2 Kings 17:13 And the Lord testified to them in Israel, and in Juda, by the hand of all the prophets and seers, saying: Return from your wicked ways, and keep my precepts, and ceremonies, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers: and as I have sent to you in the hand of my servants the prophets.

Nehemiah 9:29,30 And thou didst admonish them to return to thy law. But they dealt proudly, and hearkened not to thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them: and they withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear. . . .

Malachi 3:5 And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.

I am

Exodus 20:2 I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

2 Chronicles 28:5 And the Lord his God delivered him into the hands of the king of Syria, who defeated him, and took a great booty out of his kingdom, and carried it to Damascus: he was also delivered into the hands of the king of Israel, who overthrew him with a great slaughter.

Ezekiel 20:5,7,19,20 And say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: In the day when I chose Israel, and lifted up my hand for the race of the house of Jacob: and appeared to them in the land of Egypt, and lifted up my hand for them, saying: I am the Lord your God: . . .

Zechariah 13:9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined: and I will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say: Thou art my people: and they shall say: The Lord is my God.

Context
The Mighty One Calls
6And the heavens shall declare his justice: for God is judge. 7Hear, O my people, and I will speak: O Israel, and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.8I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices: and thy burnt offerings are always in my sight.…
Cross References
Exodus 20:2
I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Psalm 48:14
For this is God, our God unto eternity, and for ever and ever: he shall rule us for evermore.

Psalm 49:1
Unto the end, a psalm for the sons of Core. [2] Hear these things, all ye nations: give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world.

Psalm 81:8
Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me,

Isaiah 51:4
Hearken unto me, O my people, and give ear to me, O my tribes: for a law shall go forth from me, and my judgment shall rest to be a light of the nations.

Jeremiah 6:20
To what purpose do you bring me frankincense from Saba, and the sweet smelling cane from a far country? your holocausts are not acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me.

Micah 6:3
O my people, what have I done to thee, or in what have I molested thee? answer thou me.

Psalm 50:6
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