Psalms 81:13
If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways,
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
In Context
12So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
14how soon I would subdue their enemies and turn My hand against their foes!
Cross References
Deuteronomy 10:12And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
Proverbs 1:31So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Jeremiah 7:24Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
Luke 19:41As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw 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 →