Psalms 81:13 · KJV
“Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, {and} Israel had walked in my ways!”
— Psalms 81:13
So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: {and} they walked in their own counsels. {unto...: or, to the hardness of their hearts, or, imagination}
I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
Psalms 81 — Context
But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
12So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: {and} they walked in their own counsels. {unto...: or, to the hardness of their hearts, or, imagination}
13Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, {and} Israel had walked in my ways!
14I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
15The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever. {submitted...: or, yielded feigned obedience: Heb. lied}
Cross References
Isaiah 48:18
O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
Deuteronomy 5:29
O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!
Deuteronomy 10:12-13
And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
Luke 19:41-42
And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
Matthew 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, {thou} that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under {her} wings, and ye would not!
Deuteronomy 32:29
O that they were wise, {that} they understood this, {that} they would consider their latter end!