Psalms 78:1
Give ear, O my people, to my law. Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
In Context
2I will open my mouth in parables (LXX/NT). I will utter dark sayings of old,
Cross References
Judges 5:3Hear, O ye kings. Give ear, O ye rulers. I, [even] I, will sing to LORD. I will sing praise to LORD, the God of Israel.
Psalms 49:1Hear this, all ye peoples. Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world,
Psalms 50:7Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify to thee, I am God, [even] thy God.
Psalms 74:1O God, why have thou cast off forever? Why does thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
Proverbs 22:17Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thy heart to my knowledge.
Isaiah 55:3Incline your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul shall live. And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the faithful holy things (LXX/NT) of David.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 78:1
This psalm is historical; it is a narrative of the great mercies God had bestowed upon Israel, the great sins wherewith they had provoked him, and the many tokens of his displeasure they had been under for their sins. The psalmist began, in the foregoing psalm, to relate God's wonders of old, for his own encouragement in a difficult time; there he broke off abruptly, but here resumes the subject, for the edification of the church, and enlarges much upon it, showing not only how good God had been to them, which was… Read the whole commentary →