Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Psalms 81:8
Hear, O my people. — The Divine voice here repeats the warnings so frequently uttered during the desert-wandering.
Hear, O my people. — The Divine voice here repeats the warnings so frequently uttered during the desert-wandering.
Verse Psalms 81:8. _HEAR, O MY PEOPLE_] These are nearly the same words with those spoken at the giving of the law, Exodus 20:2....
HEAR, O MY PEOPLE, AND I WILL TESTIFY UNTO THEE ... - See the notes at the similar passage in Psalms 50:7. God calls their attention to what he required of them; to what his law demanded; to what was...
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...
_Hear … and I will testify unto thee_ Or, I will protest unto thee, of solemn warning and exhortation. Cp. Psalms 50:7; and numerous passages in Deuteronomy, e.g. Deuteronomy 6:4; Deuteronomy 5:1;...
Israel's duty of allegiance to Jehovah alone; the fundamental principle of the covenant. Israel in the wilderness is primarily addressed, but Israel of every age is included....
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...
Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; HEAR, O MY PEOPLE, AND I WILL TESTIFY UNTO THEE - answering to . The fact that ye are "my people," called i...
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...
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 81:9]_ שְׁמַ֣ע עַ֭מִּי וְ אָעִ֣ידָה בָּ֑ךְ...
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...
(h) Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; (h) He condemns all assemblies where the people are not attentive to hear God's voice, and to give obedien...
_Nations. Those whom thou hast appointed judges, prevaricate, Genesis xviii. 25. (Calmet) --- Come, therefore, thyself, Lord Jesus, (Apocalypse xxii. 20.) to whom all nations were promised for an inhe...
Reader! let us for a moment drop Israel's history, to which these verses refer, to look into our own. We know how the Lord delivered Israel upon the several occasions here described; but may not you a...
8_Hear, O my people! _The more effectually to touch the hearts of the people, God is here invested with the character of a teacher, and introduced as speaking familiarly in the midst of the congregati...
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,...
HEAR, O MY PEOPLE, AND I WILL TESTIFY UNTO THEE,.... Of himself, his being, and perfections; what he was unto them, had done for them, and would do for them, as in the following verses: or "testify in...
Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; Ver. 8. _Hear, O my people, &c._] Notwithstanding thy many and mighty provocations at Meribah and elsewhere, I...
_Hear, O my people_ And who should hear me if my people will not? I have heard and answered thee, now wilt thou hear me? Hear what is said, with the greatest solemnity, and the most unquestionable cer...
Hear, O My people, a most impressive appeal, AND I WILL TESTIFY UNTO THEE; O ISRAEL, IF THOU WILT HEARKEN UNTO ME! The Lord now states the terms of the solemn covenant between Himself and Israel....
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...
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...
I WILL TESTIFY UNTO THEE, concerning my will and thy duty. I will give thee statutes and judgments, in the execution of which thou mayst live and be happy for ever. This God did presently after he bro...
Psalms 81:8 Hear H8085 (H8798) people H5971 admonish H5749 (H8686) Israel H3478 listen H8085 (H8799) He
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...
_Blow up the trumpet in the new moon._ NEW-YEAR RESOLUTIONS The savage and the child of civilization are alike in this, that they both draw their notions of time, and measure its lapse, by the moveme...
_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 81:8 I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD, WHO BROUGHT YOU UP OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT is very similar to the preface to the Ten Commandments ...
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...
1 John 5:9; Acts 20:21; Deuteronomy 32:46; Deuteronomy 5:27; Exodus
Testify — This God did presently after he brought them from Meribah, even at Sinai....