Psalms 81:16
The enemies of the Lord have lied to him: and their time shall be for ever.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
15I should soon have humbled their enemies, and laid my hand on them that troubled them.
17And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of the rock.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:13He set him upon high land: that he might eat the fruits of the fields, that he might suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the hardest stone,
Judges 14:18And they on the seventh day before the sun went down said to him: What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said to them: If you had not ploughed with my heifer, you had not found out my riddle.
Job 29:6When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil?
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 →