Psalms 81:8
Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee, O Israel, if thou would hearken to me!
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
In Context
9There shall no strange god be in thee, nor shall thou worship any foreign god.
Cross References
Exodus 17:7And he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the contending of the sons of Israel, and because they challenged LORD, saying, Is LORD among us, or not?
Numbers 20:13These are the waters of Meribah, because the sons of Israel strove with LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
Deuteronomy 32:46And he said to them, Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you this day, which ye shall command your sons to observe to do, [even] all the words of this law.
Psalms 81:13O that my people would hearken to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
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.
John 3:32And what he has seen and heard, of this he testifies, and no man receives his testimony.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 81:2-8
An Invitation to Praise. 1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. 2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. 3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. 4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. 5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not. 6 I removed his shoulder from the… Read the whole commentary →