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Psalms 50:22

In 11 translations

BSB
Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
KJV
Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
WEB
“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
ASV
Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver:
LSV
Now understand this, || You who are forgetting God, || Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.
YLT
Understand this, I pray you, Ye who are forgetting God, Lest I tear, and there is no deliverer.
DBY
Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear in pieces, and there be no deliverer.Eloah
DRC49:22
Understand these things, you that forget God; lest he snatch you away, and there be none to deliver you.
GNV
Oh cosider this, ye that forget God, least I teare you in pieces, and there be none that can deliuer you.
JPS
Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
LXXE49:22
Now consider these things, ye that forget God, lest he rend you, and there be no deliverer.

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Original-language editions

WLC
בִּֽינוּ־נָ֣א זֹ֭את שֹׁכְחֵ֣י אֱל֑וֹהַּ פֶּן־אֶ֝טְרֹ֗ף וְאֵ֣ין מַצִּֽיל׃
LXX-Br49:22
Σύνετε δὴ ταῦτα οἱ ἐπιλανθανόμενοι τοῦ Θεοῦ, μήποτε ἁρπάσῃ, καὶ μὴ ᾖ ὁ ῥυόμενος.

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In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 8:13Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.
  • Psalms 9:17The wicked will return to Sheol— all the nations who forget God.
  • 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.
  • Psalms 7:2or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
  • Jeremiah 2:32Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.
  • 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.
  • Deuteronomy 32:18You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
  • Psalms 10:4In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.
  • 2 Samuel 22:42They looked, but there was no one to save them— to the LORD, but He did not answer.
  • 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…
  • Haggai 1:5Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
  • Revelation 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. For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to…
  • Amos 2:14Escape will fail the swift, the strong will not prevail by his strength, and the mighty will not save his life.
  • Ezekiel 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!
  • 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,…

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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