Psalms 81:8
Hear, O My people, and I will warn you: O Israel, if only you would listen to Me!
BSB
ASV
Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!
KJV
Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
Hear, my people, and I will testify to you. God is speaking to us. Whatever he said to the people, he speaks also to us. Israel, if you will hear me. Why do you ask that I hear you? Let us see what he commands.
The reproof follows to Ps 81:12. if thou wilt hearken--He then propounds the terms of His covenant: they should worship Him alone, who (Ps 81:10) had delivered them, and would still confer all needed blessings.
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Exodus 15:26saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then…
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He who forgives all your iniquities and heals all your diseases,
And the LORD will remove from you all sickness. He will not lay upon you any of the terrible diseases you knew in Egypt, but He will inflict them on all who hate you.
So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take away sickness from among you.
The LORD will sustain him on his bed of illness and restore him from his bed of sickness.
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
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John 3:11Truly, truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, and yet you people do not accept our testimony.
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I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”
This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ—not by water alone, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies to this, because the Spirit is the…
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1 John 5:9Even if we accept human testimony, the testimony of God is greater. For this is the testimony that God has given about His Son.
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As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water. Suddenly the heavens were opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and resting on Him.