Bible Strands
Psalms 50:22
Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses those who have ignored His commands and presumed His silence indicated approval. He delivers this warning at the climax of His legal rebuke before concluding with the proper posture of worship.
The words — The Hebrew verb בִּֽינוּ (bi.nu) commands "consider," while אֶ֝טְרֹ֗ף ('et.Rof) declares "I should tear to pieces," framing the warning with deliberate attention and violent judgment.
The thread — This warning against forgetting God appears in Job 8:13, Psalms 9:17, and Hosea 4:6, where spiritual amnesia consistently precedes destruction or rejection.
Why it lands — It demands immediate self-examination regarding what has been neglected in divine relationship, leaving no room for assumed security or external rescue.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
Cross-references
- Job 8:13 Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.
- Psalms 9:17 The wicked will return to Sheol—all the nations who forget God.
- Hosea 4:6 My 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 7:2 or they will shred my soul like a lion and tear me to pieces with no one to rescue me.
- Deuteronomy 32:18 You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
- Psalms 10:4 In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.
- Jeremiah 2:32 Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.
- Hosea 13:8 Like 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 tearing them apart.
- 2 Samuel 22:42 They looked, but there was no one to save them—to the LORD, but He did not answer.
- Isaiah 51:13 But 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?