Psalms 78:1
Understanding for Asaph. Attend, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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: I will utter propositions from the beginning.
Cross References
Judges 5:3Hear, O ye kings, give ear, ye princes: It is I, it is I, that will sing to the Lord, I will sing to the Lord the God of Israel.
Psalms 49:1Unto the end, a psalm for the sons of Core.
Psalms 50:7Hear, O my people, and I will speak: O Israel, and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.
Psalms 74:1Understanding for Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off unto the end: why is thy wrath enkindled against the sheep of thy pasture?
Proverbs 22:17Incline thy ear, and hear the words of the wise: and apply thy heart to my doctrine :
Isaiah 55:3Incline your ear and come to me: hear and your soul shall lire, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, 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 →