Psalms 50:21

You have done these things, but I have kept silent, 1 so you thought that I was someone just like yourself. 1 But I will reprove you and bring up, right before your eyes, all the things you have done. 1

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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 speak against your brother; 1 you slander your own mother's son. 1

22Give this careful consideration, you who forget God, 1 otherwise I will tear you to pieces, 1 and there will be no one to come to help you! 1

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Cross References

Exodus 3:14God said to Moses, “I AM THAT I AM.” God said, “You must say to the Israelites, 'I AM has sent me to you.'”

Job 34:33Do you think that God will punish that person's sin, since you dislike what God does? 1 You must choose, not I. 1 So say what it is that you know. 1

Psalms 50:8I will not reprove you for your sacrifices; 1 your burnt offerings are always before me. 1

Psalms 90:8You have set our iniquities before you, 1 our hidden sins in the light of your presence. 1

Psalms 109:1God whom I praise, do not be silent, 1

Ecclesiastes 8:11When a sentence against an evil crime is not executed quickly, it entices the hearts of human beings to do 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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