Mazmur 50:5

50:5 He says: ¹ 

“Assemble my covenant people before me, ² 

those who ratified a covenant with me by sacrifice!” ³ 

Mazmur 89:34

89:34 I will not break ⁴  my covenant

or go back on what I promised. ⁵ 

[50:5]  ¹ tn The words “he says” are supplied in the translation for clarification. God’s summons to the defendant follows.

[50:5]  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.

[50:5]  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).

[89:34]  ⁴ tn Or “desecrate.”

[89:34]  ⁵ tn Heb “and what proceeds out of my lips I will not alter.”