Psalms 81:13
If only my people would obey me! If only Israel would keep my commands!
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- Deut 5:29 : 29 If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.
- Isa 48:18 : 18 If only you had obeyed my commandments, prosperity would have flowed to you like a river, deliverance would have come to you like the waves of the sea.
- Matt 23:37 : 37 Judgment on Israel“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!
- Luke 19:41-42 : 41 Jesus Weeps for Jerusalem under Judgment Now when Jesus approached and saw the city, he wept over it, 42 saying,“If you had only known on this day, even you, the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.
- Deut 10:12-13 : 12 An Exhortation to Love Both God and People Now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you except to revere him, to obey all his commandments, to love him, to serve him with all your mind and being, 13 and to keep the LORD’s commandments and statutes that I am giving you today for your own good?
- Deut 32:29 : 29 I wish that they were wise and could understand this, and that they could comprehend what will happen to them.”
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- Ps 81:11-122 verses83%
11But my people did not obey me; Israel did not submit to me.
12I gave them over to their stubborn desires; they did what seemed right to them.
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14Then I would quickly subdue their enemies, and attack their adversaries.”
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8I said,‘Listen, my people! I will warn you! O Israel, if only you would obey me!
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22But if they had stood in my inner circle, they would have proclaimed my message to my people. They would have caused my people to turn from their wicked ways and stop doing the evil things they are doing.
- Jer 9:13-142 verses75%
13The LORD answered,“This has happened because these people have rejected my laws which I gave them. They have not obeyed me or followed those laws.
14Instead they have followed the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts. They have paid allegiance to the gods called Baal, as their fathers taught them to do.
- Jer 7:23-242 verses74%
23I also explicitly commanded them:“Obey me. If you do, I will be your God and you will be my people. Live exactly the way I tell you and things will go well with you.”
24But they did not listen to me or pay any attention to me. They followed the stubborn inclinations of their own wicked hearts. They acted worse and worse instead of better.
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5If only I were predisposed to keep your statutes!
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29If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.
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7My people are obsessed with turning away from me; they call to Baal, but he will never exalt them!
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1A well-written song by Asaph. Pay attention, my people, to my instruction! Listen to the words I speak!
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32“So now, children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways.
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18If only you had obeyed my commandments, prosperity would have flowed to you like a river, deliverance would have come to you like the waves of the sea.
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10“Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said,‘Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.’
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11The Lord Encourages Isaiah Indeed this is what the LORD told me quite forcefully. He warned me not to act like these people:
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10For forty years I was continually disgusted with that generation, and I said,‘These people desire to go astray; they do not obey my commands.’
- Jer 26:3-42 verses70%
3Maybe they will pay attention and each of them will stop living the evil way they do. If they do that, then I will forgo destroying them as I had intended to do because of the wicked things they have been doing.
4Tell them that the LORD says,‘You must obey me! You must live according to the way I have instructed you in my laws.
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15Yet my people have forgotten me and offered sacrifices to worthless idols! This makes them stumble along in the way they live and leave the old reliable path of their fathers. They have left them to walk in bypaths, in roads that are not smooth and level.
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31You people of this generation, listen to the LORD’s message.“Have I been like a wilderness to you, Israel? Have I been like a dark and dangerous land to you? Why then do you say,‘We are free to wander. We will not come to you any more?’
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13But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not follow my statutes and they rejected my regulations(the one who obeys them will live by them), and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths. So I decided to pour out my rage on them in the wilderness and destroy them.
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10But if that nation does what displeases me and does not obey me, then I will cancel the good I promised to do to it.
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8But they did not listen to me or pay any attention to me! Each one of them followed the stubborn inclinations of his own wicked heart. So I brought on them all the punishments threatened in the covenant because they did not carry out its terms as I commanded them to do.’”
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29I wish that they were wise and could understand this, and that they could comprehend what will happen to them.”
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10They have gone back to the evil ways of their ancestors of old who refused to obey what I told them. They, too, have paid allegiance to other gods and worshiped them. Both the nation of Israel and the nation of Judah have violated the covenant I made with their ancestors.
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20so that they may follow my statutes and observe my regulations and carry them out. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God.
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7He says:“Listen my people! I am speaking! Listen Israel! I am accusing you! I am God, your God!
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6“My people have been lost sheep. Their shepherds have allowed them to go astray. They have wandered around in the mountains. They have roamed from one mountain and hill to another. They have forgotten their resting place.
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11so that the house of Israel will no longer go astray from me, nor continue to defile themselves by all their sins. They will be my people and I will be their God, declares the Sovereign LORD.’”
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27because they have turned away from following him, and have not understood any of his ways,
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8They have quickly turned aside from the way that I commanded them– they have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and said,‘These are your gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt.’”
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10Then the LORD spoke about these people.“They truly love to go astray. They cannot keep from running away from me. So I am not pleased with them. I will now call to mind the wrongs they have done and punish them for their sins.”
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3The Benefits of Obedience“‘If you walk in my statutes and are sure to obey my commandments,
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31if they break my rules and do not keep my commandments,
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14The Consequences of Disobedience“‘If, however, you do not obey me and keep all these commandments–
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33I am taking the kingdom from him because they have abandoned me and worshiped the Sidonian goddess Astarte, the Moabite god Chemosh, and the Ammonite god Milcom. They have not followed my instructions by doing what I approve and obeying my rules and regulations, like Solomon’s father David did.
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13Israel Has Turned Away from the Lord Woe to them! For they have fled from me! Destruction to them! For they have rebelled against me! I want to deliver them, but they have lied to me.
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8I will not make Israel again leave the land I gave to their ancestors, provided that they carefully obey all I commanded them, the whole law my servant Moses ordered them to obey.”
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27“‘If in spite of this you do not obey me but walk in hostility against me,
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20A Divine Decision The LORD was furious with Israel. He said,“This nation has violated the terms of the covenant I made with their ancestors by disobeying me.
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8Let them give thanks to the LORD for his loyal love, and for the amazing things he has done for people!
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11For,’ I say,‘just as shorts cling tightly to a person’s body, so I bound the whole nation of Israel and the whole nation of Judah tightly to me.’ I intended for them to be my special people and to bring me fame, honor, and praise. But they would not obey me.
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23“‘If in spite of these things you do not allow yourselves to be disciplined and you walk in hostility against me,
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4Pay attention to me, my people! Listen to me, my people! For I will issue a decree, I will make my justice a light to the nations.
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21“‘But the children rebelled against me, did not follow my statutes, did not observe my regulations by carrying them out(the one who obeys them will live by them), and desecrated my Sabbaths. I decided to pour out my rage on them and fully vent my anger against them in the wilderness.
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1Prophetic Call to Genuine Repentance Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for your sin has been your downfall!
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33They have turned away from me instead of turning to me. I tried over and over again to instruct them, but they did not listen and respond to correction.
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9My heart went out to Israel’s leaders, to the people who answered the call to war. Praise the LORD!