Psalms 81:13
O that My people were listening to Me, || Israel would walk in My ways.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
In Context
12And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, || They walk in their own counsels.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 10:12And now, O Israel, what is your God YHWH asking from you, except to fear your God YHWH, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve your God YHWH with all your heart and with all your soul,
Proverbs 1:31And they eat of the fruit of their way, || And they are filled from their own counsels.
Jeremiah 7:24And they have not listened, nor inclined their ear, || And they walk in the counsels, || [And] in the stubbornness, of their evil hearts, || And are backward and not forward.
Luke 19:41And when He came near, having seen the city, He 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 →