Psalms 78:1
“A Maskil of Assaph.” Give ear, O my people, to my instruction: incline thy ear to the words of my mouth.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
In Context
2I will open with a parable my mouth: I will utter riddles out of ancient times;
Cross References
Judges 5:3Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes; I—unto the Lord will I sing; I will sing praise to the Lord, the God of Israel.
Psalms 49:1“To the chief musician, by the sons of Korach, a psalm.” (49:2) Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the perishable world:
Psalms 50:7“Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: God, thy God, am I.
Psalms 74:1“A Maskil of Assaph.” Why, O God, hast thou cast us off for ever? why will thy anger smoke against the flock of thy pasture?
Proverbs 22:17Incline thy ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thy heart unto my knowledge.
Isaiah 55:3Incline your ear, and come unto me, hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make with you an everlasting covenant, the promised mercies of David, which are sure.
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 →