Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Psalms 81:12
And they walked] RV 'that they might walk.'
13-16. The verbs refer to the present—Would hearken.. would walk.. subdue.. turn.. submit.. endure.. feed.. satisfy.
And they walked] RV 'that they might walk.'
13-16. The verbs refer to the present—Would hearken.. would walk.. subdue.. turn.. submit.. endure.. feed.. satisfy.
Verse Psalms 81:12. _UNTO THEIR OWN HEARTS' LUST_] To the _obstinate_ _wickedness_ of their heart. _IN THEIR OWN COUNSELS._] God withdrew his restraining grace, which they had abused; and then they f...
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 dismissed them, to the hardness of their hearts.” I suffered th...
Psalms 81 Hope Revived: His Gracious Return to Israel _ 1. The blowing of the trumpet (Psalms 81:1)_ 2. His loving call to His people (Psalms 81:6) 3. Gracious results promised ...
LXXXI. This Ps. is probably composite. A. PSALMS 81:1. 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, the seventh...
GAVE THEM UP. let him (Israel) go on. The greatest judgment God could have given them; or give us. LUST. stubbornness....
So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, That they might walk in their own counsels. (R.V.). God punishes men by leaving them to their own self-willed courses of action, which prove t...
Israel's disobedience and its punishment....
DISCOURSE: 638 GOD GIVING UP OBSTINATE TRANSGRESSORS Psalms 81:11. _My people would not hearken to my voice, and Israel would none of me: so I gave them up._ THE history of the Jews is not a mere rec...
PSALMS 81 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Mission-Song, to be Sung to the Northern Tribes. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 81:1-5, A Festive Celebration Invoked; in which People, Levites, and Priests can Recall the...
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 OF ME. SO I GAVE THEM UP UNTO BUT MY PEOPLE WOULD NOT HE...
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ START THE MUSIC! PSALMS 81 Jesus said, "Can the bridegroom’s friends be sad when the bridegroom is with them?" (Matthew
LUST. — Rather, _stubbornness,_ or _perversity,_ from root meaning “to twist.”...
_[Psalms 81:13]_ וָֽ֭ אֲשַׁלְּחֵהוּ בִּ שְׁרִיר֣וּת לִבָּ֑ם...
Psalms 81:1 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 learning of w...
“IF THOU WOULDEST HEARKEN UNTO ME” Psalms 81:8 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 appeal. It must...
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...
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 abide in thy love, for thou hatest putting away. Rea...
_ABANDONED OF GOD_ ‘So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels,’ etc. Psalms 81:12 I. God showed His love to the Israelites by giving them a law more stric...
Psalms 81, while celebrating in figure the restoration of Israel, again returns to historical ground, specially introducing Joseph, who represents the ten tribes (see Ezekiel 37:16). Otherwise Judah,...
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 Philistines, or other neighbouring nations, for their...
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 a rudder; as a horse without reins, to go whither t...
_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 withdrew all the restraints of my providence, and my H...
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 THEY WALKED, were engaged IN and with, THEIR OWN COUNS...
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, a...
UNTO THEIR OWN HEARTS LUST: Or, to the hardness of their hearts, or imagination...
8-16 We cannot look for too little from the creature, nor too much from the Creator. We may have enough from God, if we pray for it in faith. All the wickedness of the world is owing to man's wilfuln...
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, and my Holy Spirit, and grace from them, and whol...
Psalms 81:12 over H7971 (H8762) stubborn H8307 heart H3820 walk H3212 (H8799) counsels H4156 I gave -...
SO I GAVE See (Acts 7:42); (Acts 14:16); (Romans 1:24); (Romans 1:26)....
Psalms 81:12 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 as a jealous God, who would be obeyed; He curbed all their...
Psalms 81:11 It cannot be doubted that very often when people get into wrong courses they think they shall be able to stop when they please. And this notion tends very much to quiet their consciences...
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 they are to suit the dogmas of modern thought, for «th...
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...
CONTENTS: God chides His people for their ingratitude and pictures their happy state had they but obeyed Him. CHARACTERS: God, Asaph, Joseph, Jacob. CONCLUSION: God gives those up to their own heart...
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 m...
_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 painful observation, that very often when people enter on...
_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 consi...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 81:1. This psalm resembles the OT prophets’ oracles, so perhaps it is best to think of it as a prophetic hymn. The primary function of the OT prophets is to challenge God’s...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 81:11 God’s PEOPLE DID NOT LISTEN TO his VOICE (v. Psalms 81:11), which led to sad consequences (v....
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 th...
EXPOSITION PROFESSOR CHEYNE regards this psalm as composed of "two distinct lyrical passages," accidentally thrown together (compare his theory of Psalms 19:1, Psalms 24:1, Psalms 36:1
Let's turn to Psalms 81:1-16. On the first day of the seventh month in the Jewish calendar, which, because their calendar begins, the religious calendar begins the first of April, it usually coincides...
2 Thessalonians 2:9; Acts 14:16; Acts 7:42; Exodus 11:9; Genesis 6:3;...