Tree of Life Version
Psalms 81:8
8You called out in trouble, and I rescued you. I answered you from the hiding place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
Psalms 81:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
- New International Version (NIV)Hear me, my people, and I will warn you— if you would only listen to me, Israel!
- English Standard Version (ESV)Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Hear, O My people, and I will admonish you! O Israel, if you will listen to Me!
Context of Psalms 81:8
6He set it up as a testimony in Joseph, when He went throughout the land of Egypt, I heard a language I did not understand. 7“I relieved his shoulder of the burden, his hands were set free from the basket. You called out in trouble, and I rescued you. I answered you from the hiding place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah 9Hear, My people, I will admonish you— if you would listen to Me, O Israel! 10Let there be no foreign god among you, and you shall not worship any alien god.
Read all of Psalms 81Psalms 81:8 word by word
שְׁמַ֣ע עַ֭מִּי וְאָעִ֣ידָה בָּ֑ךְ יִ֝שְׂרָאֵ֗ל אִם־תִּֽשְׁמַֽע־לִֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 81:8
- Psalms 50:7“Hear, My people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God.
- Deuteronomy 32:46he said to them, “Put in your hearts all the words that I call as witness against you today—that you may command your children to keep and do all the words of this Torah.
- Isaiah 55:3Incline your ear and come to Me. Listen, so that your soul may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the trustworthy loyalty to David.
- John 3:11Amen, amen I tell you, We speak about what We know and testify about what We have seen. Yet you all do not receive Our testimony!
- Acts 20:21testifying to both Jewish and Greek people repentance to God and trust in our Lord Yeshua.
- 1 John 5:9If we accept men’s testimony, God’s testimony is greater—for this it is the testimony that God has given about His Son.
- Psalms 81:13So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart, to walk in their own counsels.
- Exodus 15:26He said, “If you diligently listen to the voice of Adonai your God, do what is right in His eyes, pay attention to His mitzvot, and keep all His decrees, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians. For I am Adonai who heals you.”
- Deuteronomy 5:27Go say to them, “Return to your tents.”
- Isaiah 1:19If you are willing and obey, you will eat the good of the land.
Commentaries on Psalms 81:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8Hear, O my people - These are nearly the same words with those spoken at the giving of the law, Exodus 20:2.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee - See the notes at the similar passage in Psalm 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, Psalm 81:9.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-16Verses 8-16 We cannot look for too little from the creature, nor too much from the Creator. We may have enough from God, if we pray for it in faith. All the wickedness of the world is owing to man's wilfulness. People are not religious, because they will not be so. God is not the Author of their sin, he leaves them to the lusts of their own hearts, and the counsels of their own heads; if they do not well, the blame must be upon themselves. The Lord is…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8-10God pleads with his people to remember the covenant and the Ten Commandments.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. (Compare Psa 50:7). The reproof follows to Psa 81:12. if thou wilt hearken--He then propounds the terms of His covenant: they should worship Him alone, who (Psa 81:10) had delivered them, and would still confer all needed blessings.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 81
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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