Psalms 81:15
I should soon have humbled their enemies, and laid my hand on them that troubled them.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
14If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways:
16The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: and their time shall be for ever.
Cross References
Exodus 20:5Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:
Leviticus 26:7You shall pursue your enemies, and they shall fall before you.
Psalms 18:44Thou wilt deliver me from the contradictions of the people: thou wilt make me head of the Gentiles.
Psalms 83:2O God, who shall be like to thee? hold not thy peace, neither be thou still, O God.
Isaiah 65:22They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree, so shall be the days of my people, and the works of their hands shall be of long continuance.
John 15:22If I had not come, and spoken to them, they would not have sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
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 →