20 You sit and malign your brother; you slander your own mother’s son. 21 You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face. 22 Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
Psalms 50:20–22
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