Psalms 81:15 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The haters of the LORD should have submittedb themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever. ”

Psalms 81:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The haters of the Lord - The enemies of the Lord, often represented as those who hate him - hatred being always in fact or in form connected with an unwillingness to submit to God. It is hatred o...
Psalms 81:15 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time (m) should have endured for ever. (m) If the Israelites had not broken covenant with God, he would have given them vi...
Psalms 81:15 - 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 81:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

haters of the LORD: i.e. Israel ' . enemies. the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4.
Psalms 81:15 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

15. The haters of Jehovah would have lied to him. Here the same thought is pursued, when the Israelites are informed that their enemies would have humbly submitted to their authority had not...
Psalms 81:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever. Their time should have endured for ever - That is, Their prosperity should have known no...
Psalms 81:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves— The haters of the Lord should have lied to him. "The enemies of the Lord; or, (passively, by a different pointing,) the hated of the Lo...
Psalms 81:15 - 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 81:15 - 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 81:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Submitted. — See Note, Psalms 18:44 . Him — i.e., Israel; Jehovah’s enemies being also Israel’s enemies. Their time — i.e., Israel’s. One of the sudden changes of number so frequent in H...
Psalms 81:15 - 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 81:15 - 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 81:15 - 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 81:15 - 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 81:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto him ,.... Or, "lied unto him" h; feignedly submitted to him, flattered him, pretended friendship to him, and entered into a league with h...
Psalms 81:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever. Ver. 15. The haters of the Lord should have submitted ] Heb. lied, that is, yielded f...
Psalms 81:15 - 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 81:15 - 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 81:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The haters of the Lord; all the haters and enemies of God's people, as the neighbouring nations were; whom he calls haters of God , partly because they hated the Israelites for God's sake, and for...
Psalms 81:15 - 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 81:15 - 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 81:15 - 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 81:15 - 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 81:15 - 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 81:15 - 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 81:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 7:10 ; Exodus 20:5 ; Isaiah 65:22 ; Joel 3:20 ; John 15:22 ; John 15:23 ; Psalms 18:44 ; Psalms 18:45 ; Psalms 63:3 ; Psalms 83:2-18 ; Psalms 102:28 ; Romans 1:30 ; Romans 8:...
Psalms 81:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Him — Unto Israel. Their time — Their happy time.

Psalms 81:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 81:15 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 81:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 81:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 81:15 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 81:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 81:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 81:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 81:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 81:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 81:15 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 81:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 81:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 81:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 81:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 81:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 81:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 81:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 81:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 81:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 81:15 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 81:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 81:15 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 81:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 81:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 81:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 81:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes