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11But my people would not hearken{H8804)} to my voice; and Israel would{H8804)} none of me.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.
But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. …
But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-16)God, by the psalmist, here speaks to Israel, and in them to us, on whom the ends of the world are come. I. He demands their diligent and serious attention to what he was about to say (Ps. 81:8): “ 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 certaint…
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