Psalms 81:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. ”

Psalms 81:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I should soon have subdued their enemies - This is one of the consequences which, it is said, would have followed if they had been obedient to the laws of God. The phrase rendered soon means lite...
Psalms 81:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand (l) against their adversaries. (l) If their sins had not.
Psalms 81:14 - 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 81:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

soon. See note on "almost", Proverbs 5:14 .
Psalms 81:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

14. I would soon have brought their enemies low. Here the Israelites are taught, that all the calamities which had befallen them were to be imputed to their own sins; for their enemies did n...
Psalms 81:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. I should soon have subdued - If God's promise appeared to fail in behalf of his people, it was because they rej...
Psalms 81:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Psalms 81:14 - 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 81:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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 81:14 - 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 81:14 - 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 81:14 - 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 81:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
Psalms 81:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I should soon have subdued their enemies ,.... The Canaanites, and others: this he would have done in a very little time, or at once, and that easily, and without any trouble; he would quickly have...
Psalms 81:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. Ver. 14. I should soon have subdued ] I would have turned the scales, and made them as much overweight to th...
Psalms 81:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I would soon have subdued their enemies Both those remaining Canaanites, whom now, for their unbelief and apostacy, I have left in the land, to be snares and plagues to them, and also all their enc...
Psalms 81:14 - 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 81:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Those remainders of the Canaanites whom now for their unbelief and apostacy I have left in the land to be snares and plagues to them.
Psalms 81:14 - 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 81:14 - 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 81:14 - 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 81:14 - 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 81:14 - 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 81:14 - 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 81:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 1:8 ; Joshua 23:13 ; Judges 2:20-23 ; Numbers 14:45 ; Numbers 14:9 ; Zechariah 13:7

Psalms 81:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 81:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 81:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 81:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 81:14 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 81:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 81:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 81:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 81:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 81:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 81:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 81:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 81:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 81:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 81:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 81:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 81:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 81:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 81:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 81:14 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 81:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 81:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 81:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 81:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 81:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge