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Psalm 81:14-16 KJV
Psalms · chapter 81 · verses 14–16
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. 16He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.Psalm 81:14-16 · King James Version
Psalm 81:14-16 in context
12So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
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.
16He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
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Key words (Strong's)
- submittedkâchashto be untrue, in word or deedH3584 →
- subduedkânaʻproperly, to bend the kneeH3665 →
- enemiesʼôyêbhatingH341 →
- turnedshûwbto turn back transitively or intransitively, literally or figurativelyH7725 →
- haterssânêʼto hateH8130 →
- finestchelebfat, whether literally or figurativelyH2459 →
- wheatchiṭṭâhwheat, whether the grain or the plantH2406 →
- honeydᵉbashhoneyH1706 →
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God, by the psalmist, here speaks to Israel, and in them to us, on whom the ends of the world are come. I. He demands their diligent and serious attention to what he was about to say (Psa 81:8): "Hear, O my people! and who should hear me if my people will not? I have heard and answered thee;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 8-16