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Darby's French Translation
Psaumes 81:14
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Oh! si mon peuple voulait m'couter, qu'Isral marcht dans mes voies!
En un instant je confondrais leurs ennemis, Je tournerais ma main contre leurs adversaires;
J'eusse en un instant abattu leurs ennemis, et j'eusse tourn ma main contre leurs adversaires.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
I should: Numbers 14:9, Numbers 14:45, Joshua 23:13, Judges 2:20-23
turned: Amos 1:8, Zechariah 13:7
Reciprocal: Exodus 16:28 - General Leviticus 26:8 - General Judges 4:23 - General Psalms 47:3 - subdue Jeremiah 2:3 - all that
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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 g 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, he subdues their iniquities, and will bruise Satan under their feet shortly, and make them more than conquerors: through himself, over the world; the men and things of it he has overcome:
and turned my hand against their adversaries; that troubled, distressed, and oppressed them; and it is a righteous thing with God to render tribulation to them that trouble his people; he turns his chastising hand off of them, which sometimes is heavy upon them, and presses them sore, and turns it in a way of wrath and vindictive justice against their adversaries; and so the Targum,
"and turned the stroke of my power against their adversaries;''
this is the lighting down of his arm with the indignation of his anger, which is intolerable, Isaiah 30:30.
g אכניע "flecterem", Cocceius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I should soon have subdued their enemies - This is one of the consequences which, it is said, would have followed if they had been obedient to the laws of God. The phrase rendered soon means literally like a little; that is, as we might say, in a little, to wit, in a little time. The word rendered subdued means to bow down; to be curved or bent; and the idea is, that he would have caused them to bow down, to wit, by submission before them. Compare Deuteronomy 32:29-30.
And turned my hand against their adversaries - Against those who oppressed and wronged them. The act of turning the hand against one is significant of putting him away - repelling him - disowning him - as when we would thrust one away from us with aversion.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 81:14. I should soon have subdued — If God's promise appeared to fail in behalf of his people, it was because they rejected his counsel, and walked in their own. While they were faithful, they prospered; and not one jot or tittle of God's word failed to them.
