Psalms 81:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!

Psalms 81:13 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 48:18
O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
Deuteronomy 5:29
O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!
Deuteronomy 10:12-13
And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, …
Luke 19:41-42
And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, …
Matthew 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God Backsliders Blessing Call Church Converts Forgetting God

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 certainty…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13-16. Obedience would have secured all promised blessings and the subjection of foes. In this passage, “should have,” “would have,” &c., are better, “should” and “would” expressing God’s intention at the time, that is, when they left Egypt.