Psalm 81:10

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 81:10

Open thy mouth wide; either, 1. To pray for mercies. Ask freely, and abundantly, and boldly, (as this phrase oft signifies,) whatsoever you need, or in reason can desire. Or, 2. To receive the mercies which I am ready to give you. I will fill it; I will give or grant them all, upon condition of your obedience. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Psalms 81:1-16

INTRODUCTIONSuperscription.—“To the chief Musician upon Gittith.” Gittith is explained in several ways. One interpretation is that it was a musical instrument invented in Gath, or common among the Gittites. Or it may have been the name of a tune to which the Psalm is to be sung, and which originated from Gath. Others have derived the word from נַּתּ = a wine press, and concluded that it denotes an instrument which was used by those accustomed to tread the wine-vat, and intended to accompany the... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Psalms 81:10

DISCOURSE: 637PRAYER EFFECTUAL, TO ANY EXTENTPsalms 81:10. I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.ACCESS to God, and a certainty of acceptance with him, have been amongst the most distinguished privileges of the Lord’s people in all ages. To his ancient people the Jews, God said, “What nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for?” To us, under the... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Psalms 81:1-16

Let's turn to Psalms 81:1-16 .On the first day of the seventh month in the Jewish calendar, which, because their calendar begins, the religious calendar begins the first of April, it usually coincides somewhere around the first of October on our calendar. There is a blowing of the trumpets. It's called the Feast of the Trumpets to announce the most holy month of the year, the seventh month. And so the first day of the seventh month the Feast of Trumpets, the blowing of the trumpets to... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 81:1-16

This psalm was composed for the festival of tabernacles, when the people celebrated the deliverance from Egypt. It was a statute in Israel on the first day of the Hebrew month of Tisri, or the new month, for the full band of music to be heard in all places. Numbers 10:10; Numbers 29:1. It might be sung after the storm in the preseding psalm had subsided. Psalms 81:5 . A testimony. Joseph is named here as leading the Hebrews into Egypt, where they heard a language which they could not... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 81:1-16

Psalms 81:1-16Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.A revelation of three great subjectsI. True worship (verses1-5)1. True worship is the highest happiness, which consists in--(1) Right activity. Worthy of our nature. In harmony with all our faculties.(2) The highest love.(3) The sublimest hope.2. True worship is a Divine ordinance, binding on all moral intelligences.(1) Right in itself.(2) Essential to their happiness.II. Divine kindness (Psalms 81:6-10).... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 81:10

Psalms 81:10Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.The more morally hungry, the better fedI. Good men are the subjects of moral hunger--a craving for the chief good, hungering and thirsting after righteousness. This implies--1. Health. The body without appetite for food is diseased; the intellect without appetite for truth is diseased; and the soul without appetite for righteousness is diseased.2. Provision. The existence of any native desire, physical, intellectual, or moral, implies a... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 81:10

Psa 81:10 I [am] the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. Ver. 10. Open thou thy mouth wide, &c. ] If thou be straitened, it is not in me, but in thine own bowels; he secretly taxeth them for their ολιγοπιστια and their ολιγοφυχια in prayer, their faithlessness and faint-heartedness, whereby they do deny, as it were, their own prayers: ask largely, and speed accordingly. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Psalms 81:10

I am: Exodus 20:2, Jeremiah 11:4, Jeremiah 31:31-Micah : open: Psalms 37:3, Psalms 37:4, John 7:37, John 15:7, John 16:23, Ephesians 3:19, Ephesians 3:20, Revelation 21:6, Revelation 22:17 Reciprocal: Genesis 17:7 - God 2 Kings 4:3 - borrow not a few 2 Kings 21:9 - they hearkened Psalms 50:7 - O my Song of Solomon 5:2 - Open Isaiah 43:12 - no strange Ezekiel 20:19 - the Lord Hosea 8:3 - cast Hosea 12:9 - I that Hosea 13:4 - I am Matthew 7:8 - General Matthew 22:3 - and they would not Luke... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Psalms 81:10

I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.Wide — Either to pray for mercies, or to receive the mercies which I am ready to give you. read more

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 81:10

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Psalms 81:1-16

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Psalms 81:10

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Psalms 81:1-16

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 81:1-16

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 81:1-16

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 81:10

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 81:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Psalms 81:10

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Psalms 81:10

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