Psalms 78:1
An Instruction of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my law, Incline your ear to sayings of my mouth.
Young's Literal Translation
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 open with a simile my mouth, I bring forth hidden things of old,
Cross References
Judges 5:3Hear, ye kings; give ear, ye princes, I, to Jehovah, I — I do sing, I sing praise to Jehovah, God of Israel.
Psalms 49:1To the Overseer. — By sons of Korah. A Psalm. Hear this, all ye peoples, Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world.
Psalms 50:7Hear, O My people, and I speak, O Israel, and I testify against thee, God, thy God [am] I.
Psalms 74:1An Instruction of Asaph. Why, O God, hast Thou cast off for ever? Thine anger smoketh against the flock of Thy pasture.
Proverbs 22:17Incline thine ear, and hear words of the wise, And thy heart set to my knowledge,
Isaiah 55:3Incline your ear, and come unto me, Hear, and your soul doth live, And I make for you a covenant age-during, The kind acts of David — that are stedfast.
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 →