Psalms 81:13

World English Bible (2000)

Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!

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  • Deut 5:29 : 29 Oh that there were such a 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 forever!
  • Isa 48:18 : 18 Oh that you had listened to my commandments! then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea:
  • Matt 23:37 : 37 "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I would have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you would not!
  • Luke 19:41-42 : 41 When he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it, 42 saying, "If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.
  • Deut 10:12-13 : 12 Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 to keep the commandments of Yahweh, and his statutes, which I command you this day for your good?
  • Deut 32:29 : 29 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

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  • Ps 81:11-12
    2 verses
    83%

    11 But my people didn't listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

    12 So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

  • 14 I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their adversaries.

  • 8 "Hear, my people, and I will testify to you, Israel, if you would listen to me!

  • 22 But if they had stood in my council, then had they caused my people to hear my words, and had turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings.

  • Jer 9:13-14
    2 verses
    75%

    13 Yahweh says, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein,

    14 but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them;

  • Jer 7:23-24
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    23 but this thing I commanded them, saying, Listen to my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people; and walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.

    24 But they didn't listen nor turn their ear, but walked in [their own] counsels [and] in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

  • 5 Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!

  • 29 Oh that there were such a 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 forever!

  • 7 My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won't exalt them.

  • 1 Hear my teaching, my people. Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.

  • 32 "Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.

  • 18 Oh that you had listened to my commandments! then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea:

  • 10 Therefore I was displeased with that generation, and said, 'They always err in their heart, but they didn't know my ways;'

  • 11 For Yahweh spoke thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

  • 10 Forty long years I was grieved with that generation, and said, "It is a people that errs in their heart. They have not known my ways."

  • Jer 26:3-4
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    3 It may be they will listen, and turn every man from his evil way; that I may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do to them because of the evil of their doings.

    4 You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh: If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

  • 15 For my people have forgotten me, they have burned incense to false [gods]; and they have been made to stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in byways, in a way not built up;

  • 31 Generation, consider the word of Yahweh. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, 'We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?'

  • 13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they didn't walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

  • 10 if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.

  • 8 Yet they didn't obey, nor turn their ear, but walked everyone in the stubbornness of their evil heart: therefore I brought on them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they didn't do them.

  • 29 Oh that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

  • 10 They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they are gone after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

  • 20 that they may walk in my statutes, and keep my ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

  • 7 "Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.

  • 6 My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray; they have turned them away on the mountains; they have gone from mountain to hill; they have forgotten their resting place.

  • 11 that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither defile themselves any more with all their transgressions; but that they may be my people, and I may be their God, says the Lord Yahweh.

  • 27 because they turned aside from following him, and wouldn't pay attention to any of his ways,

  • 8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.'"

  • 10 Thus says Yahweh to this people, Even so have they loved to wander; they have not refrained their feet: therefore Yahweh does not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

  • 3 "'If you walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;

  • 31 if they break my statutes, and don't keep my commandments;

  • 14 "'But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments;

  • 33 because that they have forsaken me, and have worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon. They have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in my eyes, and [to keep] my statutes and my ordinances, as David his father did.

  • 13 Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.

  • 8 neither will I cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them."

  • 27 "'If you in spite of this won't listen to me, but walk contrary to me;

  • 20 The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel; and he said, "Because this nation have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not listened to my voice;

  • 8 Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful works to the children of men!

  • 11 For as the belt clings to the waist of a man, so have I caused to cling to me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, says Yahweh; that they may be to me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.

  • 23 "'If by these things you won't be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me;

  • 4 "Attend to me, my people; and give ear to me, my nation: for a law shall go forth from me, and I will establish my justice for a light of the peoples.

  • 21 But the children rebelled against me; they didn't walk in my statutes, neither kept my ordinances to do them, which if a man do, he shall live in them; they profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

  • 1 Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.

  • 33 They have turned to me the back, and not the face: and though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.

  • 9 My heart is toward the governors of Israel, who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless Yahweh!