Submitted. — See Note, Psalms 18:44.
Him — i.e., Israel; Jehovah’s enemies being also Israel’s enemies.
Their time — i.e., Israel’s. One of the sudden changes of number so frequent in Hebrew poetry. As a nation Israel would continue to live and prosper.
Verse Psalms 81:15. _THEIR TIME SHOULD HAVE ENDURED FOR EVER._] That is, Their _prosperity_ should have known no end....
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...
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...
HATERS OF THE LORD: i.e. Israel _'_. enemies. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4....
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....
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
THE HATERS OF THE LORD] i.e. Israel's enemies. UNTO HIM] probably means 'unto Israel.'...
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
_[Psalms 81:16]_ מְשַׂנְאֵ֣י יְ֭הוָה יְכַֽחֲשׁוּ ־לֹ֑ו וִ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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;...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
SUBMITTED THEMSELVES: Or, yielded feigned obedience, _Heb._ lied...
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...
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...
Psalms 81:15 haters H8130 (H8764) LORD H3068 submission H3584 (H8762) fate H6256 forever H5769 The haters -...
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...
_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...
Deuteronomy 7:10; Exodus 20:5; Isaiah 65:22; Joel 3:20; John 15:22;...
Him — Unto Israel. Their time — Their happy time....