Psalms 81:11-16

11 "But My people would not hearken to My voice, and Israel would have none of Me.

12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust, and they walked in their own counsels.

13 Oh that My people had hearkened unto Me, and Israel had walked in My ways!

14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned My hand against their adversaries."

15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto Him, but their time should have endured for ever.

16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat, and, "With honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee."

Psalms 81:11-16 Meaning and Commentary

To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A [Psalm] of Asaph. Of "gittith," See Gill on "Ps 8:1." The Targum renders it, "upon the harp which came from Gath;" and so Jarchi says it was a musical instrument that came from Gath. The Septuagint, and the versions which follow that, render it, "for the winepresses." This psalm, according to Kimchi, is said concerning the going out of the children of Israel from Egypt; and was composed in order to be sung at their new moons and solemn feasts, which were typical of Gospel things in Gospel times; see Colossians 2:16 and so the Syriac version, "a psalm of Asaph, when David by him prepared himself for the solemnities."