Psalms 50:22

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Carefully consider this, you who reject God! Otherwise I will rip you to shreds and no one will be able to rescue you.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בִּֽינוּ־נָ֣א זֹ֭את שֹׁכְחֵ֣י אֱל֑וֹהַּ פֶּן־אֶ֝טְרֹ֗ף וְאֵ֣ין מַצִּֽיל׃

Transliteration

Binu-na this shochechei Eloah lest-etroph and-none matsil

Grammar Details

• *Binu*: verb, Qal imperative, masculine plural - understand/consider
• *na*: particle - now/please
• *shochechei*: verb, Qal participle, masculine plural construct - forgetters of
• *Eloah*: noun, masculine, singular - God
• *etroph*: verb, Qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I will tear
• *matsil*: verb, Hiphil participle, masculine singular - deliverer

Word Meanings

• *binu-na*: understand now/please consider
• *shochechei*: those who forget/forgetters of
• *etroph*: I will tear in pieces/rend

Referenced Verses

• Ps 7:2 : 2 Otherwise they will rip me to shreds like a lion; they will tear me to bits and no one will be able to rescue me.
• Ps 9:17 : 17 The wicked are turned back and sent to Sheol; this is the destiny of all the nations that ignore God,
• Job 8:13 : 13 Such is the destiny of all who forget God; the hope of the godless perishes,
• Deut 32:18 : 18 You have forgotten the Rock who fathered you, and put out of mind the God who gave you birth.
• 2 Sam 22:42 : 42 They cry out, but there is no one to help them; they cry out to the LORD, but he does not answer them.
• Ps 10:4 : 4 The wicked man is so arrogant he always thinks,“God won’t hold me accountable; he doesn’t care.”
• Eccl 7:14 : 14 In times of prosperity be joyful, but in times of adversity consider this: God has made one as well as the other, so that no one can discover what the future holds.
• Isa 51:13 : 13 Why do you forget the LORD, who made you, who stretched out the sky and founded the earth? Why do you constantly tremble all day long at the anger of the oppressor, when he makes plans to destroy? Where is the anger of the oppressor?
• Jer 2:32 : 32 Does a young woman forget to put on her jewels? Does a bride forget to put on her bridal attire? But my people have forgotten me for more days than can even be counted.
• Ezek 18:28 : 28 Because he considered and turned from all the sins he had done, he will surely live; he will not die.
• Hos 4:6 : 6 You have destroyed my people by failing to acknowledge me! Because you refuse to acknowledge me, I will reject you as my priests. Because you reject the law of your God, I will reject your descendants.
• Hos 5:14 : 14 The Lion Will Carry Israel Off Into Exile I will be like a lion to Ephraim, like a young lion to the house of Judah. I myself will tear them to pieces, then I will carry them off, and no one will be able to rescue them!
• Hos 13:8 : 8 I will attack them like a bear robbed of her cubs– I will rip open their chests. I will devour them there like a lion– like a wild animal would tear them apart.
• Amos 2:14 : 14 Fast runners will find no place to hide; strong men will have no strength left; warriors will not be able to save their lives.
• Mic 5:8 : 8 Those survivors from Jacob will live among the nations, in the midst of many peoples. They will be like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, which attacks when it passes through; it rips its prey and there is no one to stop it.
• Hag 1:5 : 5 Here then, this is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has said:‘Think carefully about what you are doing.
• Luke 15:17 : 17 But when he came to his senses he said,‘How many of my father’s hired workers have food enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!
• Rev 6:16-17 : 16 They said to the mountains and to the rocks,“Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who is seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, 17 because the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?”