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Psalms 81:8
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Thou didst call in trouble, and I rescued thee;
Hear, O My people, and I will warn you: O Israel, if only you would listen to Me!
"Listen, my people, while I, the Lord, correct you! Israel, if you would only pay attention to me!
You called out when you were in trouble, and I rescued you; I answered you from the thundercloud; I tested you at the M'rivah Spring [by saying,] (Selah)
Hear, my people, and I will testify unto thee; O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!
"My people, I am warning you. Israel, listen to me!
Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!
Give ear, O my people, and I will give you my word, O Israel, if you will only do as I say!
[Then I sayd] heare O my people: and I wyll geue thee a charge O Israel in protesting vnto thee.
Heare, O my people, and I wil protest vnto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken vnto me,
Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify about you. If you will listen to me;
Listen, my people, to my warning; Israel, how I wish you would listen to me!
Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
"Hear, my people, and I will testify to you. Yisra'el, if you would listen to me!
Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee; O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me;
"Hear, my people, and I will testify to you. Israel, if you would listen to me!
Hear, O my people, and I will admonish you; O Israel, if you would but listen to me.
My people, listen, and I will testify against you, whether you will listen to Me:
My people, listen. I am warning you. Israel, please listen to me!
I said, ‘Listen, my people! I will warn you! O Israel, if only you would obey me!
Hear me, my people, and I will warn you— if you would only listen to me, Israel!
"Hear, O My people, and I will admonish you! O Israel, if you will listen to Me!
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Hear, O My people, and I will tell you what to do. O Israel, if you would listen to Me!
Hear, O my people, while I admonish you; O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
Hear, O my people, and I will adjure thee, O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me!
"Hear, O My people, and I will admonish you— O Israel, if you would listen to Me!
Hear, my people, and I will speak to thee, O Israel; and I will testify to thee: if thou wilt hearken to me;
Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me!
Listen, My people, and I will admonish you. Israel, if you would only listen to Me!
Heare, O my people, and I will testifie vnto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken vnto me:
(80-9) Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me,
Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
Hear, O My people, and I testify to thee, O Israel, if thou dost hearken to me:
I proued the also at the water of strife.
"Listen, dear ones—get this straight; O Israel, don't take this lightly. Don't take up with strange gods, don't worship the latest in gods. I'm God , your God, the very God who rescued you from doom in Egypt, Then fed you all you could eat, filled your hungry stomachs.
"Hear, O my people, and I will warn you- if you would but listen to me, O Israel!
"Hear, My people, and I will admonish you; Israel, if you would listen to Me!
"Listen to me, O my people, while I give you stern warnings. O Israel, if you would only listen to me!
Hear, O my people, and I will testify to you: O Israel, if you would listen to me!
"Hear, O My people, and I will admonish you; O Israel, if you would listen to Me!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Hear: Psalms 50:7, Deuteronomy 32:46, Isaiah 55:3, Isaiah 55:4, John 3:11, John 3:32, John 3:33, Acts 20:21, 1 John 5:9
if thou wilt: Psalms 81:13, Exodus 15:26, Deuteronomy 5:27, Isaiah 1:19
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 17:13 - testified Nehemiah 9:16 - hearkened Isaiah 46:3 - Hearken Micah 6:3 - O my Zechariah 7:13 - as Malachi 3:5 - a swift Matthew 23:37 - how
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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" d, 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 the word, and which also may be here meant; for it may be rendered,
I will give a testimony to thee: the law is a testimony of the will of God to his people, what he would have done, or not done; and the Gospel is a testimony of his grace, and the whole word testifies of Christ, his person, offices, obedience, sufferings, and death: some render it, "testify against thee" e, for their murmurings, rebellion, and idolatry, as in Psalms 50:7 and they are called upon to hear the voice of God in his word, and in his providences, being his people; and as such he addresses them, which bespeaks interest in them, affection to them, and an acknowledgment of them, and carries in it a reason why they should hear him:
O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; this explains who are meant by the Lord's people, Israel, the posterity of Jacob, a chosen and special people, who are exhorted not only to hear, but to hearken and to obey; suggesting, it would be well with them, if they did as in
Psalms 81:13, and some f take these words to be a wish, as there; "Israel, O that thou wouldest hearken unto me": see Isaiah 48:18.
d ××¢××× ×× "testificabor in te", Gejerus. e "Ut testificer contra te", Schmidt. f So Michaelis, and Gussetius, and Genevenses, in ib. Comment. Ebr. p. 431.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee ... - See the notes at the similar passage in Psalms 50:7. God calls their attention to what he required of them; to what his law demanded; to what was the condition of their being his people and of securing his favor. What the demanded was, that they should acknowledge him; obey him; serve him; that there should be no strange god among them, and that they should worship no false god, Psalms 81:9.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 81:8. Hear, O my people — These are nearly the same words with those spoken at the giving of the law, Exodus 20:2.
