Psalms 78:1
Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
World English Bible
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 my mouth in a parable. I will utter dark sayings of old,
Cross References
Judges 5:3“Hear, you kings! Give ear, you princes! I, even I, will sing to the LORD. I will sing praise to the LORD, the God of Israel.
Psalms 49:1Hear this, all you peoples. Listen, all you inhabitants of the world,
Psalms 50:7“Hear, my people, and I will speak. Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
Psalms 74:1God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
Proverbs 22:17Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.
Isaiah 55:3Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
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 →