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Psalm 50:22
“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
20You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.
21You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
22“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
23Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”
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The threat of being torn to pieces makes forgetting God a matter of judgment, especially after the surrounding verses expose slander and the mistake of treating silence as approval.
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Deuteronomy 32:39“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.Both passages present God as the one from whose judgment no other power can deliver.
Job 8:13So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,Bildad describes the ruin of those who forget God, sharing the psalm's link between forgetting God and destruction.
Psalm 9:17The wicked shall be turned back to Sheol, even all the nations that forget God.Both psalms connect forgetting God with judgment, with Psalm 9 extending the warning to nations.
Hosea 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 …Both passages connect forgetting God or his law with destruction and speak God's warning to those accountable to him.
Hebrews 10:31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.Both texts describe God's judgment as something to fear, with no suggestion that his power can be dismissed.
Psalm 7:2lest they tear apart my soul like a lion, ripping it in pieces, while there is no one to deliver.Both use tearing and the absence of a deliverer, though Psalm 7 fears attackers and Psalm 50 warns of God.
Hosea 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 …Both portray God's threatened judgment through violent tearing, with Hosea making the comparison to wild animals explicit.
Jeremiah 2:32“Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.Both passages identify forgetting God as the offense, while Jeremiah stresses how long his people have forgotten him.
Psalm 10:4The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.Both describe disregard for God, with Psalm 10 showing a person whose thoughts leave no room for him.
Deuteronomy 32:18Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.Both address forgetting God, with Deuteronomy naming him as the one who gave his people birth.
Isaiah 42:22But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become captives, and no one delivers, and …Both describe danger with no deliverer, though Isaiah depicts a captive people and the psalm warns of God's judgment.
Isaiah 43:13Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?”Both declare that no one can deliver from God's power, and Isaiah adds that no one can hinder his work.
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God tells those who forget him to consider his warning while he speaks. The threat is severe: his silence has never meant approval, and his judgment cannot be overruled.
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