Psalms 50:22

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

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

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Psalms 50:22 — 21 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 32:18You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
  2. Deuteronomy 32:39See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
  3. 2 Samuel 22:42They looked, but there was no one to save them— to the LORD, but He did not answer.
  4. Job 8:13Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.
  5. Job 10:7though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
  6. Psalms 7:2or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
  7. Psalms 9:17The wicked will return to Sheol— all the nations who forget God.
  8. Psalms 9:18For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.
  9. Psalms 10:4In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.
  10. Ecclesiastes 7:14In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him.
  11. Isaiah 51:13But you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You live in terror all day long because of the fury of the oppressor who is bent on destruction. But where is the fury of the oppressor?
  12. Jeremiah 2:32Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.
  13. Ezekiel 18:28Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die.
  14. Hosea 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
  15. Hosea 5:14For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear them to pieces and then go away. I will carry them off where no one can rescue them.
  16. Hosea 13:8Like a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a lion, like a wild beast would tear them apart.
  17. Amos 2:14Escape will fail the swift, the strong will not prevail by his strength, and the mighty will not save his life.
  18. Micah 5:8Then the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which tramples and tears as it passes through, with no one to rescue them.
  19. Haggai 1:5Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
  20. Luke 15:17Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food? But here I am, starving to death!
  21. Revelation 6:16And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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