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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...
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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...
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Psalms 81
Hope Revived: His Gracious Return to Israel
_ 1. The blowing of the trumpet (Psalms 81:1)_
2. His loving call to His people (Psalms 81:6)
3. Gracious results promised ...
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LXXXI. This Ps. is probably composite.
A. PSALMS 81:1. A FESTAL HYMN, specially adapted for the old New
Year's Day or Feast of Trumpets (p. 104), which was held on the new
moon of Tishri, the seventh...
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SOON. See note on "almost", Proverbs 5:14....
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Yet God's mercy is inexhaustible. Even now if Israel would obey Him,
He would subdue their enemies, and bless them abundantly. Cp. Isaiah
48:17-19....
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I should soon subdue their enemies,
And turn my hand against their adversaries.
_In my ways_is the contrast to _in their own counsels_. (Jeremiah
7:23-24.) The hand which is now turned against Israe...
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PSALMS 81
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
A Mission-Song, to be Sung to the Northern Tribes.
ANALYSIS
Stanza I., Psalms 81:1-5, A Festive Celebration Invoked; in which
People, Levites, and Priests can Recall the...
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Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my
ways!
-God still yearns over them, in spite of their perversity and its
penal consequence, waiting to be gracious.
Verse 13. OH...
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After a summons to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles (Psalms 81:1)
this Ps. recalls the meaning of Israel's national festivals as
memorials of their deliverance from Egypt (Psalms 81:4). From Psalms...
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Psalms 73:89
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
START THE MUSIC!
PSALMS 81
Jesus said, "Can the bridegroom’s friends be sad when the
bridegroom is with them?" (Matthew
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HEARKEN... SUBDUE. — The verbs should be taken in a future sense,
“Oh that my people would hearken ... I should soon subdue,” &c.
The poet changes from reminiscences of the past to the needs of the
pr...
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_[Psalms 81:15]_ כִּ֭ מְעַט אֹויְבֵיהֶ֣ם
אַכְנִ֑יעַ וְ...
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Psalms 81:1
THE psalmist summons priests and people to a solemn festival,
commemorative of Israel's deliverance from Egypt, and sets forth the
lessons which that deliverance teaches, the learning of w...
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“IF THOU WOULDEST HEARKEN UNTO ME”
Psalms 81:8
God wants our emptiness, which seems to Him like the gaping beak of
the young fledgling, Psalms 81:10. _Give me room_! is his incessant
appeal. It must...
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This is a psalm for the Feast of Trumpets. In the calendar of the
Hebrews this feast prepared the way for the Day of Atonement and the
Feast of Tabernacles. The first day of the seventh month was the...
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I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand (l)
against their adversaries.
(l) If their sins had not....
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So Jesus wept over Jerusalem! And had Israel then, or upon the
occasion which this Psalm records, hearkened unto the Lord, the
temporal prosperity of Israel would have continued. For, I beg the
Reader...
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14._I would soon have brought their enemies low. _Here the Israelites
are taught, that all the calamities which had befallen them were to be
imputed to their own sins; for their enemies did not fight...
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Psalms 81, while celebrating in figure the restoration of Israel,
again returns to historical ground, specially introducing Joseph, who
represents the ten tribes (see Ezekiel 37:16). Otherwise Judah,...
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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 hum...
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I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against
their adversaries.
Ver. 14. _I should soon have subdued_] I would have turned the scales,
and made them as much overweight to thei...
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_I would soon have subdued their enemies_ Both those remaining
Canaanites, whom now, for their unbelief and apostacy, I have left in
the land, to be snares and plagues to them, and also all their
encr...
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A JOYFUL SALUTATION AND GOD'S RESPONSE.
To the chief musician upon Gittith, to be sung to the accompaniment of
the zitherlike instrument which David brought along from the
Philistine city of Gath, a...
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I should soon have subdued their enemies, whom they were too
indifferent to drive out completely, Judges 1, 2, AND TURNED MY HAND
AGAINST THEIR ADVERSARIES, to exterminate them altogether....
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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 wilfuln...
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Psalms 81:14 soon H4592 subdue H3665 (H8686) enemies H341 (H8802) turn
H7725 (H8686) hand H3027 adversaries...
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Psalms 81:1. _Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise
unto the God of Jacob._
In these days, the Psalm would have to be altered if they are to suit
the dogmas of modern thought, for «th...
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We have here an exhortation to praise God; and this is always in
season. Perhaps we need more stirring up to praise than to prayer, yet
it ought to be as natural for us to praise God as it is for the...
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CONTENTS: God chides His people for their ingratitude and pictures
their happy state had they but obeyed Him.
CHARACTERS: God, Asaph, Joseph, Jacob.
CONCLUSION: God gives those up to their own heart...
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This psalm was composed for the festival of tabernacles, when the
people celebrated the deliverance from Egypt. It was a statute in
Israel on the first day of the Hebrew month of _Tisri,_ or the new
m...
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_Oh that My people had hearkened unto Me, and Israel had walked in My
ways! _
JEHOVAH’S COMPLAINT AGAINST THE CONDITION AND CONDUCT OF HIS PEOPLE
I. The humiliating position in which the Church is su...
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_Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of
Jacob._
A REVELATION OF THREE GREAT SUBJECTS
I. True worship (verses1-5)
1. True worship is the highest happiness, which consi...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 81:1. This psalm resembles the OT
prophets’ oracles, so perhaps it is best to think of it as a
prophetic hymn. The primary function of the OT prophets is to
challenge God’s...
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 81:11 God’s PEOPLE DID NOT LISTEN TO his
VOICE (v. Psalms 81:11), which led to sad consequences (v....
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INTRODUCTION
_Superscription_.—“_To the chief Musician upon Gittith_.”
Gittith is explained in several ways. One interpretation is that it
was a musical instrument invented in Gath, or common among th...
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EXPOSITION
PROFESSOR CHEYNE regards this psalm as composed of "two distinct
lyrical passages," accidentally thrown together (compare his theory of
Psalms 19:1, Psalms 24:1, Psalms 36:1
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Let's turn to Psalms 81:1-16.
On the first day of the seventh month in the Jewish calendar, which,
because their calendar begins, the religious calendar begins the first
of April, it usually coincides...
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Amos 1:8; Joshua 23:13; Judges 2:20; Numbers 14:45; Numbers 14:9;...