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Darby's French Translation
Psaumes 81:8
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Tu as crié dans la détresse, et je t'ai délivré; je t'ai répondu, caché dans le tonnerre; je t'ai éprouvé aux eaux de Mériba. (Sélah.)
Ecoute, mon peuple! et je t'avertirai; Israël, puisses-tu m'écouter!
Ecoute mon peuple, je te sommerai; Israël ô si tu m'écoutais!
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 ×עידה בך "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.
