Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
Parallel translations
- WEB “Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
- KJV Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
- NKJV “Now consider this, you who forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, And there be none to deliver:
- NASB ¶“Now consider this, you who forget God, Or I will tear you in pieces, and there will be no one to save you.
- NLT Repent, all of you who forget me, or I will tear you apart, and no one will help you.
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Quick answer
God warns those who forget Him to consider their ways, lest He tear them apart with none to rescue. Forgetting God is perilous.
Overview
God solemnly calls the forgetful to reflect before judgment falls, using the image of a lion rending its prey with no deliverer to intervene. The warning is severe because the danger is real. Yet the call to 'consider' is also merciful, an invitation to repent while there is still time.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 18
- Job 8:13Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.
- Hos 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.
- Ps 9:17The wicked will return to Sheol—all the nations who forget God.
- Ps 7:2or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
- Deut 32:18You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
- Jer 2:32Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.
- Ps 10:4In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.
- Hos 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.
- Isa 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?
- 2 Sam 22:42They looked, but there was no one to save them—to the LORD, but He did not answer.
- Hag 1:5Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
- Rev 6:16–17And 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.
- Amos 2:14Escape will fail the swift, the strong will not prevail by his strength, and the mighty will not save his life.
- Mic 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.
- Hos 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.
- Ezek 18:28Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die.
- 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!
- Eccl 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.
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