Psalms 81:8
Hear, O my people, and I will adjure thee, O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 not be, within thee, a foreign GOD,—Neither shalt thou bow down to a strange GOD:
Cross References
Exodus 17:7So he called the name of the place, Massah, and Meribah,—because of the fault-finding of the sons of Israel, and because of their putting Yahweh to the proof, saying, Is Yahweh in our midst or is he not?
Numbers 20:13The same, were the waters of Meribah [that is "Contention"] in that the sons of Israel contended with Yahweh,—and so he hallowed himself among them.
Deuteronomy 32:46he said unto them—Apply your hearts unto all the words which I am witnessing against you, to-day,—how that ye must command your sons to observe to do all the words of this law;
Psalms 81:13If, my people, were hearkening unto me, [If,] Israel, in my ways, would walk,
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.
John 3:32What he hath seen and heard, of, the same, he beareth witness,—and, his witness, no one, receiveth:—
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 →