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22Now consider{H8798)} this, ye that forget{H8802)} God, lest I tear you in pieces{H8799)}, and there be none to deliver{H8688)}.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.
Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
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.
Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-23)God, by the psalmist, having instructed his people in the right way of worshipping him and keeping up their communion with him, here directs his speech to the wicked, to hypocrites, whether they were such as professed the Jewish or the Christian religion: hypocrisy is wickedness for which God will judge. Observe here, I. The charge drawn up against them. 1. They are charged with invading and usurp…
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