Psalms 81:15
The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
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14I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
Cross References
Exodus 20:5You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Leviticus 26:7And all of you shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.
Psalms 18:44As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.
Psalms 83:2For, lo, yours enemies make a tumult: and they that hate you have lifted up the head.
Isaiah 65:22They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
John 15:22If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.
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 →