Psalms 81:12

gave them up. let him (Israel) go on. The greatest judgment God could have given them; or give us.

lust. stubbornness.

Related Commentaries of 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 dismisse...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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 t...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

And they walked] RV 'that they might walk.' 13-16. The verbs refer to the present—Would hearken.. would walk.. subdue.. turn.. submit.. endure...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Lust. — Rather, stubbornness, or perversity, from root meaning “to twist.”
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...
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, Psa...
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 Taber...
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 a...
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...
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 P...
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...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Expostulation with Israel. 8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify un...
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...
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 mus...
Scofield Reference Notes

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

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 a...
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 b...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 81:1 . Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. In these days, the Psalm would have to be altered if...
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 fir...
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)...
The Biblical Illustrator

My people would not hearken to My voice, and Israel would none of me: so I gave them up. Danger of presuming on God’s mercy It is matter of pai...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION PROFESSOR CHEYNE regards this psalm as composed of "two distinct lyrical passages," accidentally thrown together (compare his the...
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 Dav...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust, their stubbornness, that being God's punishment upon the stubborn and rebellious of all times; and th...
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...

¹² So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 81:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Scofield Reference Notes

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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