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The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 81:13-14

Psalms 81:13-14Oh that My people had hearkened unto Me, and Israel had walked in My ways! Jehovah’s complaint against the condition and conduct of His peopleI.The humiliating position in which the Church is supposed to be standing towards its enemies. Think of the damnable heresies and apostasies from truth, which the abused name of religion is employed to cover, and the consummate wickedness with which the profession of Christianity has been converted by iniquitous laws into a tyranny and a... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 81:16

Psalms 81:16With honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.A little but wise teacherYou know it was said of the Holy Land, long before God led His people into it, that it was “a land flowing with milk and honey.” Such it was and still is. That bees swarmed abundantly in the East many years ago, we may infer from the honey found in the dried remains of the lion which was killed by Samson. And in these modern days the wandering Arabs who live in tents, especially those who dwell in the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 81:7

Psa 81:7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah. Ver. 7. Thou calledst in trouble ] Their trouble called, though themselves had been silent. I have seen, I have seen the afflictions of my people, &c., but they cried to the Lord at the Red Sea, Exodus 14:10 ; Exodus 14:15 , and were delivered. I answered thee in the secret place of thunder ] i.e. In the pillar of cloud that stood between... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 81:8

Psa 81:8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; Ver. 8. Hear, O my people, &c. ] Notwithstanding thy many and mighty provocations at Meribah and elsewhere, I made a covenant with thee at Mount Sinai, and gave thee right judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments, Nehemiah 9:13 . read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 81:9

Psa 81:9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. Ver. 9. There shall no strange god ] This is the first and chief commandment, wherein all the rest are contained, saith Luther. 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

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

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 81:12

Psa 81:12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: [and] they walked in their own counsels. Ver. 12. So I gave them up ] I left them as a ship without a rudder; as a horse without reins, to go whither they would, and do what they would. This is a fearful judgment ( poena rebellionis maxima ), Hos 4:14 Rom 1:28 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12 . And they walked in their own counsels ] To their own ruin, because they took counsel, but not of God, and covered with a covering, but not of his... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 81:13

Psa 81:13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, [and] Israel had walked in my ways! Ver. 13. Oh that my people had hearkened unto me ] A wish after the manner of men; to set forth God’s great desire of our welfare, which he here uttereth, as it were, with a sigh and a groan. read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 81:14

Psa 81:14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. Ver. 14. I should soon have subdued ] I would have turned the scales, and made them as much overweight to their enemies as they were to them. And turned my hand, &c. ] God, with a turn of his hand, can overturn his enemies, and relieve his little ones, Zechariah 13:7 . If he but spread forth his hands, as a swimmer spreadeth forth his hands to swim, he shall bring down the pride of oppressors... read more

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 81:13-14

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 81:16

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 81:7

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 81:8

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 81:9

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 81:10

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 81:11

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 81:12

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 81:13

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 81:14

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