Psalms 81:14
As a little thing I cause their enemies to bow, || And I turn back My hand against their adversaries,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
In Context
13O that My people were listening to Me, || Israel would walk in My ways.
15Those hating YHWH should have feigned [obedience] to Him, || And their time would last for all time.
Cross References
Numbers 14:45And the Amalekite and the Canaanite who are dwelling in that mountain come down and strike them, and beat them down to Hormah.
Joshua 23:13certainly know that your God YHWH is not continuing to dispossess these nations from before you, and they have been to you for a trap, and for a snare, and for a scourge, in your sides, and for thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground which your God YHWH has given to you.
Psalms 47:3He leads peoples under us, and nations under our feet.
Amos 1:8And I have cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, || And a holder of a scepter from Ashkelon, || And have turned back My hand against Ekron, || And the remnant of the Philistines have perished,” said Lord YHWH.
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 →