Psalms 81:14

soon. See note on "almost", Proverbs 5:14.

Related Commentaries of 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 th...
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.
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....
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...
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 fai...
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 p...
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...
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 ch...
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

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...
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 easil...
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...
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...
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

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.
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...
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

Oh that My people had hearkened unto Me, and Israel had walked in My ways! Jehovah’s complaint against the condition and conduct of His people...
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

I should soon have subdued their enemies, whom they were too indifferent to drive out completely, Judges 1, 2, and turned My hand against their adve...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

¹⁴ I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 81:14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole 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

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

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

Psalms 81:14