Psalms 81:13
What meaning of the psalms 81:13 in the Bible?
What does Psalms 81:13 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!"
What does Psalms 81:13 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!"
Verse Psalms 81:13. _O THAT MY PEOPLE HAD HEARKENED UNTO ME, - ISRAEL HAD_ _WALKED IN MY WAYS_] Nothing can be more plaintive than the original; _sense_ and _sound_ are surprisingly united. I scruple...
OH THAT MY PEOPLE HAD HEARKENED UNTO ME - This passage is designed mainly to show what would have been the consequences if the Hebrew people had been obedient to the commands of God, Psalms 81:14. At...
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 (Psalms 81:13) Hop...
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 sevent...
OH...! Figure of speech _Eonismos._. WALKED. Plural....
O that my people were hearkening unto me, That Israel would walk in my ways!...
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 th...
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...
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 9: 15). (A bridegroom is a man getting marr...
HEARKEN... SUBDUE. — The verbs should be taken in a future sense, “Oh that my people would hearken ... I should soon subdue,” &c. The poet changes from reminiscences of the past to the needs of the pr...
_[Psalms 81:14]_ ל֗וּ עַ֭מִּי שֹׁמֵ֣עַֽ לִ֑י יִ֝שְׂרָאֵ֗ל בִּ דְרָכַ֥י יְהַלֵּֽכוּ׃...
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...
(k) Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, [and] Israel had walked in my ways! (k) God by his word calls all, but his secret election appoints who will bear fruit....
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...
_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 STRI...
13._O if my people had hearkened to me! _By the honorable designation which God gives to the people of Israel, He exposes the more effectually their shameful and disgraceful conduct. Their wickedness...
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,...
O THAT MY PEOPLE HAD HEARKENED UNTO ME,.... This might have been expected from them, as they were his professing people; and it would have been to their advantage if they had hearkened to him, as well...
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, [and] Israel had walked in my ways! Ver. 13. _Oh that my people had hearkened unto me_] A wish after the manner of men; to set forth God's great desire of our...
_O that my people had hearkened unto me_ In this way does God testify his good-will to, and concern for, the welfare and happiness of these most refractory, disobedient, and obstinate sinners. The exp...
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 wilfulne...
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Psalms 81:13 Oh H3863 people H5971 listen H8085 (H8802) Israel H3478 walk H1980 (H8762) ways H1870 Oh that - Deuteronomy 5:29, Deuteronomy 10:12-13, Deuteronomy 32:29; Isaiah 48:18;...
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 thei...
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...
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 t...
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, Psalms 55:1, P...
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 10:12; Deuteronomy 10:13; Deuteronomy 32:29; Deuteronomy 5:29; Isaiah 48:18; Luke 19:41; Luke 19:42; Matthew 23:37...