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15The haters{H8764)} of the LORD should have submitted{H8762)} themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.

Psalms 81:15

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  • And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.

  • Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

  • Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

  • The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.

  • But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.

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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