Psalms 78:1
A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the Gentiles have entered into your inheritance; they have polluted your holy temple. They have set Jerusalem as a place to tend fruit trees.
Catholic Public Domain 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
Cross References
Judges 5:3Listen, O kings! Pay attention, O princes! It is I, it is I, who will sing to the Lord. I will sing a psalm to the Lord, the God of Israel!
Psalms 49:1A Psalm of Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord has spoken, and he has called the earth, from the rising of the sun even to its setting,
Psalms 50:7For behold, I was conceived in iniquities, and in sinfulness did my mother conceive me.
Psalms 74:1Unto the end. May you not be corrupted. A Canticle Psalm of Asaph.
Proverbs 22:17Incline your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Then apply your heart to my doctrine.
Isaiah 55:3Incline your ear and draw near to me. Listen, and your soul will live. And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, by the faithful mercies 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 →