Psalms 50:22

Understand this, I pray you, Ye who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.

Young's Literal Translation

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 thou didst, and I kept silent, Thou hast thought that I am like thee, I reprove thee, and set in array before thine eyes.

23He who is sacrificing praise honoureth Me, As to him who maketh a way, I cause him to look on the salvation of God!

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:18The Rock that begat thee thou forgettest, And neglectest God who formeth thee.

2 Samuel 22:42They look, and there is no saviour; Unto Jehovah, and He hath not answered them.

Job 10:7For Thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is no deliverer from Thy hand.

Psalms 9:17The wicked do turn back to Sheol, All nations forgetting God.

Psalms 10:4The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. 'God is not!' [are] all his devices.

Isaiah 51:13And thou dost forget Jehovah thy maker, Who is stretching out the heavens, and founding earth, And thou dost fear continually all the day, Because of the fury of the oppressor, As he hath prepared 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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