Psalm 81:7-16 KJV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 81:1-7

When the people of God were gathered together in the solemn day, the day of the feast of the Lord, they must be told that they had business to do, for we do not go to church to sleep nor to be idle; no, there is that which the duty of every day requires, work of the day, which is to be done in its day. And here, I. The worshippers of God are excited to their work, and are taught, by singing this psalm, to stir up both themselves and one another to it, Ps. 81:1-3. Our errand is, to give unto... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 81:8-16

God, by the psalmist, here speaks to Israel, and in them to us, on whom the ends of the world are come. I. He demands their diligent and serious attention to what he was about to say (Ps. 81:8): ?Hear, O my people! and who should hear me if my people will not? I have heard and answered thee; now wilt thou hear me? Hear what is said with the greatest solemnity and the most unquestionable certainty, for it is what I will testify unto thee. Do not only give me the hearing, but hearken unto me,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 81:7

Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee ,.... That is, when Israel were in trouble in Egypt, as the Targum adds, and they cried unto the Lord in their distress, he heard them, and answered them, and sent them a deliverer, and brought them out of all their troubles, Exodus 3:7 . I answered thee in the secret place of thunder ; by bringing the plague of thunder and lightnings upon the Egyptians, when the Israelites were hidden from them; a sense given by some, as Kimchi observes:... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 81:8

Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee ,.... Of himself, his being, and perfections; what he was unto them, had done for them, and would do for them, as in the following verses: or "testify in thee" F4 אעידה בך "testificabor in te", Gejerus. , bear witness to their spirits, that they were his people, and he was their God; this is a witness which the people of God have in themselves; it is the inward testimony of the Spirit; besides which, there is the outward testimony of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 81:9

There shall no strange god be in thee ,.... Or in the midst of thee, owned and worshipped as God; or in thine heart, for whatever engrosses the affection, or a man puts his trust and confidence in, that he makes his god, and is a strange one: thus, if any friend or relation, father or mother, wife or children, are loved more than God, they are set up as such in his place; thus the epicure, that seeks the gratification of his carnal lusts, makes his belly his god; and the covetous man his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 81:10

I am the Lord thy God ,.... The true Jehovah, the Being of beings, in whom all live and move and have their beings, the covenant God of his people; and is a reason why they should hear him, and worship him, and no other: which brought thee out of the land of Egypt ; this, with what goes before, is the preface to the ten commands, the first and principal of which is urged in the preceding verse; and this is another reason why the Lord God should be had and worshipped, and not a strange... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 81:11

But my people would not hearken to my voice ,.... Neither as exhorting them to the above duties, nor as promising the above favours; would neither hearken to the voice of the law, nor to the voice of the Gospel; but were like the deaf adder, which stops its ear to the voice of the charmer, charming never so wisely: and Israel would none of me ; would not attend to his word, acquiesce in his will, nor delight themselves in him, and in his worship and service; would have none of his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 81:12

So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust ,.... Sometimes God gave them up, when they sinned, into the hands of the Moabites, or Ammonites, or Philistines, or other neighbouring nations, for their chastisement; but to be delivered up unto their own hearts' lust is worse than that; nay, than to be delivered to Satan: salvation may be the consequence of that, but damnation of this; and yet it is a righteous judgment; for as men like not to retain God in their knowledge, it is but just with... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 81:13

O that my people had hearkened unto me ,.... This might have been expected from them, as they were his professing people; and it would have been to their advantage if they had hearkened to him, as well as it would have been well pleasing to him; for that is what is designed by this wish, which does not express the purposing will of God; for who hath resisted that? if he had so willed, he could have given them ears to hear; but his commanding will, and what is his approving one: to hearken to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 81:14

I should soon have subdued their enemies ,.... The Canaanites, and others: this he would have done in a very little time, or at once, and that easily, and without any trouble; he would quickly have humbled them, and brought them on their knees, as the word F7 אכניע "flecterem", Cocceius. signifies, to terms of peace; for when a man's ways please the Lord, he makes his enemies to be at peace with him, Proverbs 16:7 so those that hearken to the voice of Christ, and walk in his ways,... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 81:1-7

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Psalms 81:8-16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 81:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 81:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 81:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 81:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 81:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 81:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 81:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Psalms 81:14

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