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Psalms 81:8
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Listen, my people, and I will admonish you.Israel, if you would only 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 unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but 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, O My people, and I will admonish you— O Israel, if you would listen to Me!
"Hear, My people, and I will admonish you; Israel, if you would listen to Me!
"Hear, my people, and I will testify to you. Israel, if you would listen to me!
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 testify against you;O Israel, if you would listen to Me!
Hear, O My people, and I will warn you: O Israel, if only you would listen 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 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, 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:
I proued the also at the water of strife.
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!
Thou didst call in trouble, and I rescued thee;
Heare, O my people, and I will testifie vnto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken vnto me:
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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!
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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 testify to thee; O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me;
"Hear, O My people, and I will admonish you! O Israel, if you will 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 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!
(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:
"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 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.
