Psalms 81:11
\81:10\I am the Lord your God, who took you up from the land of Egypt: let your mouth be open wide, so that I may give you food.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
In Context
10\81:9\There is to be no strange god among you; you are not to give worship to any other god.
12\81:11\But my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me.
Cross References
Exodus 16:6And Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, This evening it will be clear to you that it is the Lord who has taken you out of the land of Egypt:
Exodus 32:1And when the people saw that Moses was a long time coming down from the mountain, they all came to Aaron and said to him, Come, make us a god to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us up out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has become of him.
Deuteronomy 32:15But Jeshurun became fat and would not be controlled: you have become fat, you are thick and full of food: then he was untrue to the God who made him, giving no honour to the Rock of his salvation.
2 Kings 4:3Then he said, Go out to all your neighbours and get vessels, a very great number of them.
Proverbs 1:30They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.
Jeremiah 7:23But this was the order I gave them, saying, Give ear to my voice, and I will be your God, and you will be my people: go in all the way ordered by me, so that all may be well for you.
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 →