Psalms 81:8
(81-9) Hear, O My people, and I will admonish thee: O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto Me!
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
In Context
9(81-10) There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any foreign god.
Cross References
Exodus 17:7And the name of the place was called Massah, and Meribah, because of the striving of the children of Israel, and because they tried the LORD, saying: 'Is the LORD among us, or not?'
Numbers 20:13These are the waters of Meribah, where the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and He was sanctified in them.
Deuteronomy 32:46he said unto them: 'Set your heart unto all the words wherewith I testify against you this day; that ye may charge your children therewith to observe to do all the words of this law.
Psalms 81:13(81-14) Oh that My people would hearken unto Me, that Israel would walk in My ways!
Isaiah 55:3Incline your ear, and come unto Me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 81:2-8
An Invitation to Praise. 1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. 2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. 3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. 4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. 5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not. 6 I removed his shoulder from the… Read the whole commentary →