Psalms 50:21

You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

In Context

20You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.

22Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:

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Cross References

Exodus 3:14God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

Job 34:33Should God repay you on your own terms when you have disavowed His? You must choose, not I; so tell me what you know.

Psalms 50:8I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.

Psalms 90:8You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

Psalms 109:1O God of my praise, be not silent.

Ecclesiastes 8:11When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.

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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