“ Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! ”
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me - This passage is designed mainly to show what would have been the consequences if the Hebrew people had been obedient to the commands of God, Psalms 81:1...
(k) Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, [and] Israel had walked in my ways! (k) God by his word calls all, but his secret election appoints who will bear fruit.
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...
Oh...! Figure of speech Eonismos. . walked. Plural.
13. O if my people had hearkened to me! By the honorable designation which God gives to the people of Israel, He exposes the more effectually their shameful and disgraceful conduct. Their wi...
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! O that my people had hearkened unto me, - Israel had walked in my ways - Nothing can be more plaintive than the original;...
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! -God still yearns over them, in spite of their perversity and its penal consequence, waiting to be gracious. Verse 1...
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...
Hearken... subdue. — The verbs should be taken in a future sense, “Oh that my people would hearken ... I should soon subdue,” &c. The poet changes from reminiscences of the past to the needs...
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...
“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...
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...
So Jesus wept over Jerusalem! And had Israel then, or upon the occasion which this Psalm records, hearkened unto the Lord, the temporal prosperity of Israel would have continued. For, I beg the Reade...
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...
O that my people had hearkened unto me ,.... This might have been expected from them, as they were his professing people; and it would have been to their advantage if they had hearkened to him, as w...
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, [and] Israel had walked in my ways! Ver. 13. Oh that my people had hearkened unto me ] A wish after the manner of men; to set forth God's great desire of o...
O that my people had hearkened unto me In this way does God testify his good-will to, and concern for, the welfare and happiness of these most refractory, disobedient, and obstinate sinners. The ex...
Expostulation with Israel. 8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; ...
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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 81:12-13 I. God showed His love to the Israelites by giving them a law more strict than any which had gone before it; He revealed Himself as a jealous God, who would be obeyed; He curbed al...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Deuteronomy 10:12 ; Deuteronomy 10:13 ; Deuteronomy 32:29 ; Deuteronomy 5:29 ; Isaiah 48:18 ; Luke 19:41 ; Luke 19:42 ; Matthew 23:37