Psalms 81:13
Oh that my people would hearken unto me, That Israel would walk in my ways!
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
In Context
12So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels.
14I would soon subdue their enemies, And turn my hand against their adversaries.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 10:12And now, Israel, what doth Jehovah thy God require of thee, but to fear Jehovah thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
Proverbs 1:31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices.
Jeremiah 7:24But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels [and] in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
Luke 19:41And when he drew nigh, he saw the city and wept over it,
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 →