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“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
Psalms 50:22 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
  • BSB Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
  • 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 8:13So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,
  • Hos 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children.
  • Ps 9:17The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.
  • Ps 7:2lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.
  • Deut 32:18Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.
  • Jer 2:32“Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.
  • Ps 10:4The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.
  • Hos 13:8I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.
  • Isa 51:13Have you forgotten Yahweh your Maker, who stretched out the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth? Do you live in fear continually all day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he prepares to destroy? Where is the fury of the oppressor?
  • 2 Sam 22:42They looked, but there was no one to save; even to Yahweh, but he didn’t answer them.
  • Hag 1:5Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.
  • Rev 6:16–17They told the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,
  • Amos 2:14Flight will perish from the swift; and the strong won’t strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;
  • Mic 5:8The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, among many peoples, like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep; who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, and there is no one to deliver.
  • Hos 5:14For I will be to Ephraim like a lion, and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear in pieces and go away. I will carry off, and there will be no one to deliver.
  • Ezek 18:28Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.
  • Luke 15:17But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!
  • Eccl 7:14In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 50:22 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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