Psalms 50:22

Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:

American Standard Version

In The King James Version

Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

In Context

21These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself: [But] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.

23Whoso offereth the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifieth me; And to him that ordereth his way [aright] Will I show the salvation of God. Psalm 51 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David; when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:18Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, And hast forgotten God that gave thee birth.

2 Samuel 22:42They looked, but there was none to save; Even unto Jehovah, but he answered them not.

Job 10:7Although thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?

Psalms 9:17The wicked shall be turned back unto Sheol, Even all the nations that forget God.

Psalms 10:4The wicked, in the pride of his countenance, [saith], He will not require [it]. All his thoughts are, There is no God.

Isaiah 51:13and hast forgotten Jehovah thy Maker, that stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and fearest continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he maketh ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

Matthew Henry on Psalms 50:17-23

The Character of the Wicked. 16 But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? 17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee. 18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers. 19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit. 20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son. 21 These things hast thou done,… Read the whole commentary →

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