Psalms 81:13
Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
In Context
12So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
14I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 10:12Now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
Proverbs 1:31Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.
Jeremiah 7:24But they didn’t listen or turn their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
Luke 19:41When he came near, he saw the city and 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 →