Psalms 81:13
O that my people had hearkened to me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
In Context
12So I gave them up to their own hearts lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
14I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 10:12And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
Proverbs 1:31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Jeremiah 7:24But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
Luke 19:41And when he had come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
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 →