Psalm 81:11

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

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Psalms 81:11-12

Psalms 81:11-12 It cannot be doubted that very often when people get into wrong courses they think they shall be able to stop when they please. And this notion tends very much to quiet their consciences, and to make them tolerably easy and cheerful even whilst they are doing things they know to be wrong or neglecting duties they know to be right. I. This life is a course of trial, proof, and preparation for a lasting state of good or evil beyond the grave. God having put it in our power to... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Psalms 81:11-12

DISCOURSE: 638GOD GIVING UP OBSTINATE TRANSGRESSORSPsalms 81:11-12. My people would not hearken to my voice, and Israel would none of me: so I gave them up.THE history of the Jews is not a mere record of times and persons far distant from us, but a display of the Divine procedure towards others, as a pledge of a similar procedure towards us. The Jews were intended as examples to the Church of God in all ages: their prosperity whilst serving God, and their adversity when they had departed from... 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 81:11-12

Psalms 81:11-12My people would not hearken to My voice, and Israel would none of me: so I gave them up.Danger of presuming on God’s mercyIt is matter of painful observation, that very often when people enter on wrong courses, they think they shall be able to stop when they please. They don’t pretend to be very good, and they don’t mean to be very bad. Something between both contents them; and this they think is as much as can be expected of them, especially when vice and wickedness prevail in... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 81:11

Psa 81:11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. Ver. 11. But my people would not hearken ] Here beginneth the second part of the psalm, which is objurgatory, and very suitable to the season of the year at that feast, that if it were a fruitful year the Israelites might see and acknowledge God’s goodness therein; as, if otherwise, they might accuse themselves, and not the Lord. Israel would none ] Heb. acquiesced not in me, was not well affected to me, but... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Psalms 81:11

people: Psalms 106:12, Psalms 106:13, Jeremiah 2:11-1 Chronicles :, Jeremiah 7:23, Jeremiah 7:24, Zechariah 7:11 would none: Exodus 32:1, Deuteronomy 32:15, Deuteronomy 32:18, Proverbs 1:30, Hebrews 10:29 Reciprocal: Exodus 9:12 - General Numbers 14:25 - turn you 1 Samuel 8:7 - Hearken 1 Samuel 8:19 - refused to obey 2 Kings 21:8 - only if they 2 Chronicles 25:20 - it came of God Nehemiah 9:16 - hearkened Proverbs 1:25 - would Proverbs 8:33 - refuse Proverbs 17:16 - seeing Isaiah 28:12 -... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 81:11

11. But my people would not hearken The doubt of Psalms 81:8 has become a reality. Would none of me Were not inclined to me; had not a willing mind toward me. How affecting to trace the earnest workings of the divine Mind in his testimony concerning and against (for the Hebrew word may signify either) Israel. 1. The command, “Hear, O my people.” 2. The doubt, “If thou wilt hearken to me.” 3. The testimony against them, “But my people would not hearken.” 4. The lament, “Oh that my... read more