Psalms 81:8
“Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me!
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
In Context
9There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.
Cross References
Exodus 17:7He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarrelled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD amongst us, or not?”
Numbers 20:13These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
Deuteronomy 32:46He said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
Psalms 81:13Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
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.
John 3:32What he has seen and heard, of that he testifies; and no one receives his witness.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 81:2-8
An Invitation to Praise. 1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. 2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. 3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. 4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. 5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not. 6 I removed his shoulder from the… Read the whole commentary →