Psalms 81:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels. ”

Psalms 81:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust - Margin, as in Hebrew, to the hardness of their own hearts. Literally, “I sent them, or I dismissed them, to the hardness of their hearts.” I suffer...
Psalms 81:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

LXXXI. This Ps. is probably composite. A. Psalms 81:1-4 . A Festal Hymn, specially adapted for the old New Year's Day or Feast of Trumpets (p. 104), which was held on the new moon of Tishri, t...
Psalms 81:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

gave them up . let him (Israel) go on. The greatest judgment God could have given them; or give us. lust . stubbornness.
Psalms 81:12 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 638 GOD GIVING UP OBSTINATE TRANSGRESSORS Psalms 81:11-12 . My people would not hearken to my voice, and Israel would none of me: so I gave them up. THE history of the Jews is not a...
Psalms 81:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels. Unto their own hearts' lust - To the obstinate wickedness of their heart. In their own counsels - God withdrew...
Psalms 81:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. So I gave them up unto But my people would...
Psalms 81:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

After a summons to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles ( Psalms 81:1-3 ) this Ps. recalls the meaning of Israel's national festivals as memorials of their deliverance from Egypt ( Psalms 81:4-7 ). Fro...
Psalms 81:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Lust. — Rather, stubbornness, or perversity, from root meaning “to twist.”
Psalms 81:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 81:1-16 THE psalmist summons priests and people to a solemn festival, commemorative of Israel's deliverance from Egypt, and sets forth the lessons which that deliverance teaches, the learni...
Psalms 81:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“If Thou Wouldest Hearken unto Me” Psalms 81:8-16 God wants our emptiness, which seems to Him like the gaping beak of the young fledgling, Psalms 81:10 . Give me room ! is his incessant appea...
Psalms 81:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This is a psalm for the Feast of Trumpets. In the calendar of the Hebrews this feast prepared the way for the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles. The first day of the seventh month was the...
Psalms 81:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Reader! what saith thy heart to these charges? What saith thy experience to this awful giving up? Oh! Lord! do thou still keep, still preserve, and abide in thy love, for thou hatest putting away. Re...
Psalms 81:12 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

ABANDONED OF GOD ‘So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels,’ etc. Psalms 81:12-13 I. God showed His love to the Israelites by giving them a law mo...
Psalms 81:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust ,.... Sometimes God gave them up, when they sinned, into the hands of the Moabites, or Ammonites, or Philistines, or other neighbouring nations, for the...
Psalms 81:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: [and] they walked in their own counsels. Ver. 12. So I gave them up ] I left them as a ship without a rudder; as a horse without reins, to go whither...
Psalms 81:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

So I gave them up , &c. Upon their obstinate and oft-repeated acts of disobedience, and their rejection of my grace and mercy offered to them, I withdrew all the restraints of my providence, and...
Psalms 81:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Expostulation with Israel. 8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; ...
Psalms 81:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Upon their obstinate and oft-repeated rebellions and rejections of my grace and mercy offered to them, I withdrew all the restraints of my providence, and my Holy Spirit, and grace from them, and who...
Psalms 81:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the chief Musician upon Gittith .” Gittith is explained in several ways. One interpretation is that it was a musical instrument invented in Gath, or common among...
Psalms 81:12 - Scofield Reference Notes

So I gave See ( Acts 7:42 ); ( Acts 14:16 ); ( Romans 1:24 ); ( Romans 1:26 ).
Psalms 81:12 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 81:11-12 It cannot be doubted that very often when people get into wrong courses they think they shall be able to stop when they please. And this notion tends very much to quiet their consc...
Psalms 81:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

We have here an exhortation to praise God; and this is always in season. Perhaps we need more stirring up to praise than to prayer, yet it ought to be as natural for us to praise God as it is for the...
Psalms 81:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

This psalm was composed for the festival of tabernacles, when the people celebrated the deliverance from Egypt. It was a statute in Israel on the first day of the Hebrew month of Tisri, or the new...
Psalms 81:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. A revelation of three great subjects I. True worship (verses1-5) 1. True worship is the highest happiness, which...
Psalms 81:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION PROFESSOR CHEYNE regards this psalm as composed of "two distinct lyrical passages," accidentally thrown together (compare his theory of Psalms 19:1-19 , Psalms 24:1-19 , Psalms...
Psalms 81:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Joyful Salutation and God's Response. To the chief musician upon Gittith, to be sung to the accompaniment of the zitherlike instrument which David brought along from the Philistine city of Gath,...
Psalms 81:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Thessalonians 2:9-11 ; Acts 14:16 ; Acts 7:42 ; Exodus 11:9 ; Genesis 6:3 ; Isaiah 30:1 ; Jeremiah 44:16 ; Jeremiah 44:17 ; Jeremiah 7:24 ; Romans 1:24 ; Romans 1:26 ; Romans 1:27

Psalms 81:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 81:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 81:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 81:12 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Psalms 81:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 81:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 81:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 81:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 81:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 81:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 81:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 81:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 81:12 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 81:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 81:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 81:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 81:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 81:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 81:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 81:12 - Scofield Reference Notes

Psalms 81:12 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 81:12 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 81:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 81:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 81:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 81:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 81:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge