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Verse	Translation	Text
Ps 81:11	Strong Concordance	But my people [05971] would not hearken [08085] to my voice [06963]; and Israel [03478] would [014] none of me.
	King James	But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
They failed, and He gave them up to their own desires and hardness of heart (Deu 29:18; Pro 1:30; Rom 11:25).

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

They failed, and He gave them up to their own desires and hardness of heart (Deu 29:18; Pro 1:30; Rom 11:25).

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
But my people ... - See Psa 78:10-11, Psa 78:17-19. "And Israel would none of me." Literally, "Did not will me;" that is, "did not incline to me; were not attached to me; were not disposed to worship me, and to find happiness in me." Compare Isa 1:19; Job 39:9; Pro 1:25. They refused or rejected him. See Exo 32:1; Deu 32:15, Deu 32:18.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]
The Passover discourse now takes a sorrowful and awful turn: Israel's disobedience and self-will frustrated the gracious purpose of the commandments and promises of its God. "My people" and "Israel" alternate as in the complaint in Isa 1:3. לא־אבה followed by the dative, as in Deu 13:9 ([8], ου ̓ συνθελήσεις αὐτῷ). Then God made their sin their punishment, by giving them over judicially (שׁלּח as in Job 8:4) into the obduracy of their heart, which rudely shuts itself up against His mercy (from שׁרר, Aramaic שׁרר, Arabic sarra, to make firm = to cheer, make glad), so that they went on (cf. on the sequence of tense, Psa 61:8) in their, i.e., their own, egotistical, God-estranged determinations; the suffix is thus accented, as e.g., in Isa 65:2, cf. the borrowed passage Jer 7:24, and the same phrase in Mic 6:16. And now, because this state of unfaithfulness in comparison with God's faithfulness has remained essentially the same even to to-day, the exalted Orator of the festival passes over forthwith to the generation of the present, and that, as is in accordance with the cheerful character of the feast, in a charmingly alluring manner. Whether we take לוּ in the signification of si (followed by the participle, as in Sa2 18:12), or like אם above in Psa 81:9 as expressing a wish, o si (if but!), Psa 81:15. at any rate have the relation of the apodosis to it. From כּמעט (for a little, easily) it may be conjectured that the relation of Israel at that time to the nations did not correspond to the dignity of the nation of God which is called to subdue and rule the world in the strength of God. השׁיב signifies in this passage only to turn, not: to again lay upon. The meaning is, that He would turn the hand which is now chastening His people against those by whom He is chastening them (cf. on the usual meaning of the phrase, Isa 1:25; Amo 1:8; Jer 6:9; Eze 38:12). The promise in Psa 81:16 relates to Israel and all the members of the nation. The haters of Jahve would be compelled reluctantly to submit themselves to Him, and their time would endure for ever. "Time" is equivalent to duration, and in this instance with the collateral notion of Prosperity, as elsewhere (Isa 13:22) of the term of punishment. One now expects that it should continue with ואאכילהוּ, in the tone of a promise. The Psalm, however, closes with an historical statement. For ויּאכילהו cannot signify et cibaret eum; it ought to be pronounced ויאכילהו. The pointing, like the lxx, Syriac, and Vulgate, takes v. 17a (cf. Deu 32:13.) as a retrospect, and apparently rightly so. For even the Asaphic Ps 77 and 78 break off with historical pictures. V. 17b is, accordingly, also to be taken as retrospective. The words of the poet in conclusion once more change into the words of God. The closing word runs אשׂבּיעך, as in Psa 50:8, Deu 4:31, and (with the exception of the futt. Hiph. of Lamed He verbs ending with ekka) usually. The Babylonian system of pointing nowhere recognises the suffix-form ekka. If the Israel of the present would hearken to the Lawgiver of Sinai, says v. 17, then would He renew to it the miraculous gifts of the time of the redemption under Moses.

Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78]

The Passover discourse now takes a sorrowful and awful turn: Israel's disobedience and self-will frustrated the gracious purpose of the commandments and promises of its God. "My people" and "Israel" alternate as in the complaint in Isa 1:3. לא־אבה followed by the dative, as in Deu 13:9 ([8], ου ̓ συνθελήσεις αὐτῷ). Then God made their sin their punishment, by giving them over judicially (שׁלּח as in Job 8:4) into the obduracy of their heart, which rudely shuts itself up against His mercy (from שׁרר, Aramaic שׁרר, Arabic sarra, to make firm = to cheer, make glad), so that they went on (cf. on the sequence of tense, Psa 61:8) in their, i.e., their own, egotistical, God-estranged determinations; the suffix is thus accented, as e.g., in Isa 65:2, cf. the borrowed passage Jer 7:24, and the same phrase in Mic 6:16. And now, because this state of unfaithfulness in comparison with God's faithfulness has remained essentially the same even to to-day, the exalted Orator of the festival passes over forthwith to the generation of the present, and that, as is in accordance with the cheerful character of the feast, in a charmingly alluring manner. Whether we take לוּ in the signification of si (followed by the participle, as in Sa2 18:12), or like אם above in Psa 81:9 as expressing a wish, o si (if but!), Psa 81:15. at any rate have the relation of the apodosis to it. From כּמעט (for a little, easily) it may be conjectured that the relation of Israel at that time to the nations did not correspond to the dignity of the nation of God which is called to subdue and rule the world in the strength of God. השׁיב signifies in this passage only to turn, not: to again lay upon. The meaning is, that He would turn the hand which is now chastening His people against those by whom He is chastening them (cf. on the usual meaning of the phrase, Isa 1:25; Amo 1:8; Jer 6:9; Eze 38:12). The promise in Psa 81:16 relates to Israel and all the members of the nation. The haters of Jahve would be compelled reluctantly to submit themselves to Him, and their time would endure for ever. "Time" is equivalent to duration, and in this instance with the collateral notion of Prosperity, as elsewhere (Isa 13:22) of the term of punishment. One now expects that it should continue with ואאכילהוּ, in the tone of a promise. The Psalm, however, closes with an historical statement. For ויּאכילהו cannot signify et cibaret eum; it ought to be pronounced ויאכילהו. The pointing, like the lxx, Syriac, and Vulgate, takes v. 17a (cf. Deu 32:13.) as a retrospect, and apparently rightly so. For even the Asaphic Ps 77 and 78 break off with historical pictures. V. 17b is, accordingly, also to be taken as retrospective. The words of the poet in conclusion once more change into the words of God. The closing word runs אשׂבּיעך, as in Psa 50:8, Deu 4:31, and (with the exception of the futt. Hiph. of Lamed He verbs ending with ekka) usually. The Babylonian system of pointing nowhere recognises the suffix-form ekka. If the Israel of the present would hearken to the Lawgiver of Sinai, says v. 17, then would He renew to it the miraculous gifts of the time of the redemption under Moses.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
Israel would none of me - לא אבה לי lo abah li, They willed me not, they would not have me for their God.

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²⁵ For [1063] I would [2309] not [3756], brethren [80], that ye [5209] should be ignorant [50] of this [5124] mystery [3466], lest [3363] ye should be [5600] wise [5429] in [3844] your own conceits [1438]; that [3754] blindness [4457] in [575] part [3313] is happened [1096] to Israel [2474], until [891] [3739] the fulness [4138] of the Gentiles [1484] be come in [1525].

³⁰ They would [014] none of my counsel [06098]: they despised [05006] all my reproof [08433].

¹⁸ Lest there should be [03426] among you man [0376], or woman [0802], or family [04940], or tribe [07626], whose heart [03824] turneth away [06437] this day [03117] from the LORD [03068] our God [0430], to go [03212] and serve [05647] the gods [0430] of these nations [01471]; lest there should be [03426] among you a root [08328] that beareth [06509] gall [07219] and wormwood [03939];

¹⁸ Of the Rock [06697] that begat [03205] thee thou art unmindful [07876], and hast forgotten [07911] God [0410] that formed [02342] thee.

¹⁵ But Jeshurun [03484] waxed fat [08080], and kicked [01163]: thou art waxen fat [08080], thou art grown thick [05666], thou art covered [03780] with fatness; then he forsook [05203] God [0433] which made [06213] him, and lightly esteemed [05034] the Rock [06697] of his salvation [03444].

¹ And when the people [05971] saw [07200] that Moses [04872] delayed [0954] to come down [03381] out of the mount [02022], the people [05971] gathered themselves together [06950] unto Aaron [0175], and said [0559] unto him, Up [06965], make [06213] us gods [0430], which shall go [03212] before [06440] us; for as for this Moses [04872], the man [0376] that brought [05927] us up out of the land [0776] of Egypt [04714], we wot [03045] not what is become of him.

²⁵ But ye have set at nought [06544] all my counsel [06098], and would [014] none of my reproof [08433]:

⁹ Will the unicorn [07214] be willing [014] to serve [05647] thee, or abide [03885] by thy crib [018]?

¹⁹ If ye be willing [014] and obedient [08085], ye shall eat [0398] the good [02898] of the land [0776]:

¹⁷ And they sinned [02398] yet more [03254] against him by provoking [04784] the most High [05945] in the wilderness [06723].
¹⁸ And they tempted [05254] God [0410] in their heart [03824] by asking [07592] meat [0400] for their lust [05315].
¹⁹ Yea, they spake [01696] against God [0430]; they said [0559], Can [03201] God [0410] furnish [06186] a table [07979] in the wilderness [04057]?

¹⁰ They kept [08104] not the covenant [01285] of God [0430], and refused [03985] to walk [03212] in his law [08451];
¹¹ And forgat [07911] his works [05949], and his wonders [06381] that he had shewed [07200] them.

³¹ (For the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] is a merciful [07349] God [0410];) he will not forsake [07503] thee, neither destroy [07843] thee, nor forget [07911] the covenant [01285] of thy fathers [01] which he sware [07650] unto them.

⁸ I will not reprove [03198] thee for thy sacrifices [02077] or thy burnt offerings [05930], to have been continually [08548] before me.

¹³ He made him ride [07392] on the high places [01116] of the earth [0776], that he might eat [0398] the increase [08570] of the fields [07704]; and he made him to suck [03243] honey [01706] out of the rock [05553], and oil [08081] out of the flinty [02496] rock [06697];

²² And the wild beasts of the islands [0338] shall cry [06030] in their desolate houses [0490], and dragons [08577] in their pleasant [06027] palaces [01964]: and her time [06256] is near [07138] to come [0935], and her days [03117] shall not be prolonged [04900].

¹⁶ He should have fed [0398] them also with the finest [02459] of the wheat [02406]: and with honey [01706] out of the rock [06697] should I have satisfied [07646] thee.

¹² To take [07997] a spoil [07998], and to take [0962] a prey [0957]; to turn [07725] thine hand [03027] upon the desolate places [02723] that are now inhabited [03427], and upon the people [05971] that are gathered [0622] out of the nations [01471], which have gotten [06213] cattle [04735] and goods [07075], that dwell [03427] in the midst [02872] of the land [0776].

⁹ Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] of hosts [06635], They shall throughly [05953] glean [05953] the remnant [07611] of Israel [03478] as a vine [01612]: turn back [07725] thine hand [03027] as a grapegatherer [01219] into the baskets [05552].

⁸ And I will cut off [03772] the inhabitant [03427] from Ashdod [0795], and him that holdeth [08551] the sceptre [07626] from Ashkelon [0831], and I will turn [07725] mine hand [03027] against Ekron [06138]: and the remnant [07611] of the Philistines [06430] shall perish [06], saith [0559] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069].

²⁵ And I will turn [07725] my hand [03027] upon thee, and purely [01253] purge away [06884] thy dross [05509], and take away [05493] all thy tin [0913]:

¹⁵ The haters [08130] of the LORD [03068] should have submitted [03584] themselves unto him: but their time [06256] should have endured for ever [05769].

⁹ There shall no strange [02114] god [0410] be in thee; neither shalt thou worship [07812] any strange [05236] god [0410].

¹² And the man [0376] said [0559] unto Joab [03097], Though [03863] I should receive [08254] a thousand [0505] shekels of silver [03701] in mine hand [03709], yet would I not put forth [07971] mine hand [03027] against the king's [04428] son [01121]: for in our hearing [0241] the king [04428] charged [06680] thee and Abishai [052] and Ittai [0863], saying [0559], Beware [08104] that none touch the young man [05288] Absalom [053].

¹⁶ For the statutes [02708] of Omri [06018] are kept [08104], and all the works [04639] of the house [01004] of Ahab [0256], and ye walk [03212] in their counsels [04156]; that I should make [05414] thee a desolation [08047], and the inhabitants [03427] thereof an hissing [08322]: therefore ye shall bear [05375] the reproach [02781] of my people [05971].

²⁴ But they hearkened [08085] not, nor inclined [05186] their ear [0241], but walked [03212] in the counsels [04156] and in the imagination [08307] of their evil [07451] heart [03820], and went backward [0268], and not forward [06440].

² I have spread out [06566] my hands [03027] all the day [03117] unto a rebellious [05637] people [05971], which walketh [01980] in a way [01870] that was not good [02896], after [0310] their own thoughts [04284];

⁸ So will I sing [02167] praise unto thy name [08034] for ever [05703], that I may daily [03117] [03117] perform [07999] my vows [05088].

⁴ If thy children [01121] have sinned [02398] against him, and he have cast them away [07971] for [03027] their transgression [06588];

⁹ But thou shalt surely [02026] kill [02026] him; thine hand [03027] shall be first [07223] upon him to put him to death [04191], and afterwards [0314] the hand [03027] of all the people [05971].

³ The ox [07794] knoweth [03045] his owner [07069], and the ass [02543] his master's [01167] crib [018]: but Israel [03478] doth not know [03045], my people [05971] doth not consider [0995].