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Verse Psalms 81:15. _THEIR TIME SHOULD HAVE ENDURED FOR EVER._] That
is, Their _prosperity_ should have known no end....
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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 of his...
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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 ...
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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...
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HATERS OF THE LORD: i.e. Israel _'_. enemies.
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4....
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Yet God's mercy is inexhaustible. Even now if Israel would obey Him,
He would subdue their enemies, and bless them abundantly. Cp. Isaiah
48:17-19....
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The haters of Jehovah should come cringing unto him,
So that their time should be for ever.
_Unto him_may mean _to Jehovah_or _to Israel_; but apparently the
latter. Jehovah's enemies are the enemies...
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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 Lord,...
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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...
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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 13. OH...
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After a summons to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles (Psalms 81:1)
this Ps. recalls the meaning of Israel's national festivals as
memorials of their deliverance from Egypt (Psalms 81:4). From Psalms...
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THE HATERS OF THE LORD] i.e. Israel's enemies.
UNTO HIM] probably means 'unto Israel.'...
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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
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_[Psalms 81:16]_ מְשַׂנְאֵ֣י יְ֭הוָה
יְכַֽחֲשׁוּ ־לֹ֑ו וִ...
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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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 vic...
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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
Reader...
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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 their
im...
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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,...
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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 him;...
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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 fei...
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_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
encr...
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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...
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The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto Him,
brought into subjection by the almighty power of the Lord; BUT THEIR
TIME, that of the children of Israel, their pleasant relations wi...
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SUBMITTED THEMSELVES:
Or, yielded feigned obedience, _Heb._ lied...
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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...
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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 th...
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Psalms 81:15 haters H8130 (H8764) LORD H3068 submission H3584 (H8762)
fate H6256 forever H5769
The haters -...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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
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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...
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Deuteronomy 7:10; Exodus 20:5; Isaiah 65:22; Joel 3:20; John 15:22;...
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Him — Unto Israel. Their time — Their happy time....