Psalms 81:13 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 81:13

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

KJV

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ASV

Oh that my people would hearken unto me, That Israel would walk in my ways!

WEB

If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways,

YLT

O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk.

DBT

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

About this book

Old Testament

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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21 verses on the floor

Hebrews 3:7
Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
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,

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This, though spoken primarily of Israel of old, is written for our learning, and is therefore to be sung with application. To the chief musician upon Gittith. 1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Testimony - For a witness of that glorious deliverance. Went - As a captain at the head of his people. Egypt - To execute his judgments upon that land.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

), designed to show how unwilling God is that any should perish and desirous that all should come to repentance (he delights not in the ruin of sinful persons or nations), and also what enemies sinners are to themselves and what an aggravation it will be of their misery that they might have been happy upon such easy terms.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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