Psalms 50:21

Because God kept silent, the wicked wrongly assumed He approved or was like them; now He will confront them openly. His patience is not consent.

Cross-references · 20

• Rom 2:4–5Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
• Isa 57:11“Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you don’t fear me?
• Prov 29:1He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
• Ps 94:7–11They say, “Yah will not see, neither will Jacob’s God consider.”
• Eccl 12:14For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.
• Ps 90:8You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
• Eccl 8:11–12Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
• Isa 42:14“I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.
• Ps 73:11They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
• Ps 50:3Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.
• 1 Cor 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
• Isa 40:15–18Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.
• Amos 8:7Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their works.
• Isa 26:10Let favor be shown to the wicked, yet he will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness he will deal wrongfully, and will not see Yahweh’s majesty.
• Rev 3:19As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
• 2 Pet 3:9The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
• Ps 109:1–3For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. God of my praise, don’t remain silent,
• Num 23:19God is not a man, that he should lie, nor the son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
• Exod 3:14God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” and he said, “You shall tell the children of Israel this: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
• Ps 50:8I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

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