Psalm 81:16

Geneva Study Bible - Psalms 81:16

81:16 He should have fed them also with the {n} finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.(n) That is, with most fine wheat and abundance of honey. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Psalms 81:1-16

The first psalm in this lesson suggests Psalms 74:0 on which we did not dwell, but both of which depict the desolations of Judah by the Babylonians (compare Jeremiah 52:12-14 ). On this supposition their date would be that of the captivity, and their author a later Asaph than the Asaph mentioned in David’s time. Psalms 80:0 Has captivity features also. Some would say it relates to the ten tribes, as the preceding psalm does to Judah. The next several psalms are much alike in this respect and... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 81:16

REFLECTIONS READER! let every renewed call, which we behold in the old dispensation, to excite the people to praise, remind us of our higher privileges, and become an additional incentive to the most animated love and praise to our God in Christ. Were the Old Testament saints perpetually reminded of the distinguishing love of God to his people; and was it the voice of trumpets by which the Holy Ghost caused it to be proclaimed in his church, Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound?... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 81:8-16

8-16 We cannot look for too little from the creature, nor too much from the Creator. We may have enough from God, if we pray for it in faith. All the wickedness of the world is owing to man's wilfulness. People are not religious, because they will not be so. God is not the Author of their sin, he leaves them to the lusts of their own hearts, and the counsels of their own heads; if they do not well, the blame must be upon themselves. The Lord is unwilling that any should perish. What enemies... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Psalms 81:1-16

A Joyful Salutation and God's Response. To the chief musician upon Gittith, to be sung to the accompaniment of the zitherlike instrument which David brought along from the Philistine city of Gath, a psalm of Asaph, an antiphonal, festal hymn, probably for the celebration of the Passover, God Himself answering the praise of His people by reminding them of their obligations and picturing to them the happy consequences of obedience and loyalty to Him. v. 1. Sing aloud unto God, our Strength,... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Psalms 81:1-16

Psalms 81:0To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph2 Sing aloud unto God our strength:Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.3 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel,The pleasant harp with the psaltery.4 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon,In the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.5 For this was a statute for Israel,And a law of the God of Jacob.6 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony,When he went out through the land of Egypt:Where I heard a... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Psalms 81:8-16

“If Thou Wouldest Hearken unto Me” Psalms 81:8-16 God wants our emptiness, which seems to Him like the gaping beak of the young fledgling, Psalms 81:10 . Give me room ! is his incessant appeal. It must be the wonder of eternity, and it will certainly be our regret when we come to review our life, that we have asked so little. Give me room ! cries the river, as it comes with a rush to the plains. Give me room ! cries the wind, as it searches into the narrow courts and alleys of the slums. ... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Psalms 81:1-16

This is a psalm for the Feast of Trumpets. In the calendar of the Hebrews this feast prepared the way for the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles. The first day of the seventh month was the feast of Trumpets. The tenth day of the seventh month was Atonement. The fifteenth day of the seventh month was Tabernacles ( Lev 23:1-44 ). The psalm opens with a call to the Feast of Trumpets, and a declaration of its Divine appointment (vv. Psa 81:1-5 ). Then the singer expresses the attitude... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 81:1-16

LXXXI. This Ps. is probably composite. A. Psalms 81:1-Numbers : .— A Festal Hymn, specially adapted for the old New Year’ s Day or Feast of Trumpets (p. 104), which was held on the new moon of Tishri, the seventh month, and for the Feast of Tabernacles (pp. 103f.) at the full moon of the same month. The old New Year in the autumn, when the cycle of agricultural work was complete, is to be distinguished from the Babylonian New Year in the spring month of Nisan (see p, 118, Leviticus 23:24 ff.... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 81:16

With honey; either, 1. Metaphorically, with all pleasant and precious fruits, and with all delights, as all necessaries may be expressed under the name of wheat. Or rather, 2. Properly; this land of Canaan being commended for its excellent and plentiful honey; and the bees there did oft-times harbour and make their honey in the holes of rocks and such-like places, from which it flowed down upon the ground. See Deuteronomy 32:13; 1 Samuel 14:25,1 Samuel 14:26. read more