Psalms 81:13
O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
In Context
12And I send them away in the enmity of their heart, They walk in their own counsels.
14As a little thing their enemies I cause to bow, And against their adversaries I turn back My hand,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 10:12'And now, Israel, what is Jehovah thy God asking from thee, except to fear Jehovah thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,
Proverbs 1:31And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled.
Jeremiah 7:24And they have not hearkened, nor inclined their ear, And they walk in the counsels, In the stubbornness, of their evil heart, And are for backward, and not for forward.
Luke 19:41And when he came nigh, having seen the city, he 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 →