Psalms 81:14
I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
In Context
13O that my people would hearken to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
15(The haters of LORD feign obedience to him, but their time is forever.)
Cross References
Numbers 14:45Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites who dwelt in that mountain, and smote them and beat them down, even to Hormah.
Joshua 23:13know for a certainty that LORD your God will no more drive these nations from out of your sight, but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, and a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good
Psalms 47:3He subdues peoples under us, and nations under our feet.
Amos 1:8And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon. And I will turn my hand against Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, says lord LORD.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 81:9-16
Expostulation with Israel. 8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; 9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. 10 I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. 11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. 12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels. 13 Oh that my people had hearkened… Read the whole commentary →