Psalms 78:1
My people, attend to my teaching: bend your ears to the words of my mouth,
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
In Context
2as I open my mouth in a poem on the riddling story of the past.
Cross References
Psalms 49:1Hear this, you peoples all; attend, all you who live in the world
Psalms 50:7“Hear, O my people, and I will speak, and protest to you, O Israel: I am the Lord, your God.
Psalms 74:1Why, O God, have you spurned us forever? Why smokes your wrath against the sheep of your pasture?
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 →