Psalms 81:13
11 But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.
12 So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways,
14 how soon I would subdue their enemies and turn My hand against their foes!
15 Those who hate the LORD would feign obedience, and their doom would last forever.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways,
- KJV
- Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
- WEB
- Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
- ASV
- Oh that my people would hearken unto me, That Israel would walk in my ways!
- DARBY
- Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, that Israel had walked in my ways!
- BLB
- If only My people would listen to Me, Israel would walk in My ways!
- ÅB
- O, at mitt folk ville høre meg, og at Israel ville vandre på mine veier!
- OTB
- Å, om mitt folk ville høre på meg,
Om Israel ville følge mine veier! - B1930
- O, at mitt folk vilde høre mig, og at Israel vilde vandre på mine veier!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 5:29
If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever.
Read in contextIsaiah 48:18
If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 10:12–13
And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
Read in contextLuke 19:41–42
As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it
Read in contextMatthew 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
Read in context