Amos 1:8; Joshua 23:13; Judges 2:20-23; Numbers 14:45; Numbers 14:9; Zechariah 13:7
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...
I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand (l) against their adversaries. (l) If their sins had not.
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....
soon. See note on "almost", Proverbs 5:14 .
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Expostulation with Israel. 8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify un...
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.
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the chief Musician upon Gittith .” Gittith is explained in several ways. One interpretation is that it was a mus...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
EXPOSITION PROFESSOR CHEYNE regards this psalm as composed of "two distinct lyrical passages," accidentally thrown together (compare his the...
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...
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...
14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.