Psalms 81:15
Those who hate the LORD would feign obedience, and their doom would last forever.
BSB
ASV
The haters of Jehovah should submit themselves unto him: But their time should endure for ever.
KJV
The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto him. Though the submission would have been false and flattering, yet the enemies of Israel would have been so humiliated that they would have hastened to make terms with the favoured tribes. Our enemies become abashed and cowardly when we, with resolution, walk carefully with the Lord. It is in God's power to keep the fiercest in check, and he will do so if we have a filial fear, a pious awe of him. But their time should have endured for ever.
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.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Romans 8:7because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
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The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
Through
Psalms 63:3Because Your loving devotion is better than life, my lips will glorify You.
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I am torn between the two. I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better indeed.
Answer me, O LORD, for Your loving devotion is good; turn to me in keeping with Your great compassion.
O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare Your praise.
For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.
Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.