Psalms 78:1
Give ear, O my people, to mine instruction, Bend your ear to the sayings of my mouth;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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, in a parable, my mouth, I will pour forth enigmas out of antiquity;—
Cross References
Judges 5:3Hear, ye kings! Give ear, ye princes! I, unto Yahweh,—I, will sing, Will make melody to Yahweh, God of Israel.
Psalms 49:1Hear ye, this all ye peoples, Give ear, all ye inhabitants of this passing world;
Psalms 50:7Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will adjure thee, God, thine own God, I am:—
Psalms 74:1Wherefore, O God, hast thou cast off utterly? Shall thine anger smoke against the flock of thine own pasturing?
Proverbs 22:17Incline thine ear and hear the words of wise men, then, thy heart, wilt thou apply to my teaching;
Isaiah 55:3Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hearken, That your soul, may live,—That I may solemnise for you a covenant age-abiding, The Lovingkindness to David, well-assured.
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 →