Psalms 78:1
A Psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; they have polluted thy holy temple; they have made Jerusalem a storehouse of fruits.
Brenton Septuagint
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 5:3Hear, ye kings, and hearken, rulers: I will sing, it is I who will sing to the Lord, it is I, I will sing a psalm to the Lord the God of Israel.
Psalms 49:1A Psalm + 49:1 Or, of.for Asaph. The God of gods, the Lord, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof.
Psalms 50:7For, behold, I was conceived in iniquities, and in sins did my mother conceive me.
Psalms 74:1For the end, Destroy not, a Psalm of a Song for Asaph.
Proverbs 22:17Incline thine ear to the words of wise men: hear also my word, and apply thine heart,
Isaiah 55:3Give heed with your ears, and follow my ways: hearken to me, and your soul shall live in prosperity; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, + 55:3 Acts 13. 34. the sure 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 →