Psalms 81:8
Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!
Revised Version 1895
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 no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
Cross References
Exodus 17:7And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the striving of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among 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 32:46And he said unto them, Set your heart unto all the words which I testify unto you this day; which ye shall command your children, to observe to do all the words of this law.
Psalms 81:13Oh that my people would hearken unto me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
Isaiah 55:3Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
John 3:32What he hath seen and heard, of that he beareth witness; and no man receiveth 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 →