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Psalms 50:21–22

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These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
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From verse 21

  1. Romans 2:4–5Rank 1 from verse 21
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    4Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

    5But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

  2. Proverbs 29:1Rank 2 from verse 21
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    1HE, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

  3. Ecclesiastes 12:14Rank 3 from verse 21
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    14For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

  4. Isaiah 57:11Rank 4 from verse 21
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    11And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?

  5. Psalms 94:7–11Rank 5 from verse 21
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    7Yet they say, The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.

    8Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

    9He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?

    10He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?

    11The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

From verse 22

  1. Job 8:13Rank 1 from verse 22
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    13So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish:

  2. Hosea 4:6Rank 2 from verse 22
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    6¶ My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

  3. Psalms 9:17Rank 3 from verse 22
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    17The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

  4. Psalms 7:2Rank 4 from verse 22
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    2Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

  5. Deuteronomy 32:18Rank 5 from verse 22
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    18Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.

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DEFINED WORDS

Psalms 50:21

COMBINED MEANING

hast

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Sense 1: Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience. Sense 2: Used as an auxiliary verb.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

thou

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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

silence

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Absence or cessation of sound or speech; quietness, stillness, restraint from speaking, or the condition of being made unable or unwilling to answer.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

thoughtest

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Second-person singular past form of think. Sense 1: To form or hold a thought. Sense 2: To judge or suppose. Sense 3: To intend. Sense 4: To consider or remember. Sense 5: To imagine or esteem.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

reprove

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To expose, demonstrate, convict, refute, correct, censure, or call to account for fault, error, sin, or false words.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

set

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1. To put or place a person or thing in a position, relation, or condition; when passive, to be so placed, fixed, or adorned. 2. To establish, fix, appoint, assign, prescribe, or determine. 3. To arrange, prepare, present, display, or put in order or array. 4. To direct, turn, or firmly apply the face, heart, eyes, mind, affection, or action toward something. 5. To start, advance, send out, proceed on a course or work, or make an attack, as in set forward, set forth, or set upon where those meanings apply. 6. To value or esteem; or, in set at nought or set light by, to despise. 7. Of the sun, to go down.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

order

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Sense 1: Arrangement in a sequence, position, rank, class, manner, pattern, or appointed course. Sense 2: An instruction, rule, prescribed service, or kind of office. Sense 3: To set in order: to arrange, recount, repair, regulate, or complete.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

before

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Earlier than in time; in front of; in the presence of; or prior in order or rank.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

eyes

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The bodily organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, observation, perception, understanding, desire, judgment, estimation, favour, or the presence and view before which something occurs.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Psalms 50:22

COMBINED MEANING

consider

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1. To think upon attentively; to examine or weigh. 2. To regard, observe, or take notice of.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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ye

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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

forget

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To fail or cease to remember; to lose from mind; to neglect or disregard.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

lest

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For fear that, to prevent the possibility that, or so that an undesired or warned-of result may not occur.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

you

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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

deliver

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Sense 1: To rescue, save, free, or bring safely out of danger or bondage. Sense 2: To hand over, give up, or place into another's power or possession. Sense 3: To bring forth, convey, declare, or commit something to another. Sense 4: To give birth or be delivered of a child.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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50:1THE mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.

50:2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.

50:3Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

50:4He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, that he may judge his people.

50:5Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.

50:6And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.

50:7Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.

50:8I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

50:9I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.

50:10For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.

50:11I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.

50:12If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.

50:13Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

50:14Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:

50:15And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

50:16But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?

50:17Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.

50:18When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

50:19Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

50:20Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.

50:21These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

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50:22Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

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50:23Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.

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