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Selected Verse: Psalms 81:15 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 81:15 |
King James |
The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
The haters of the Lord - The enemies of the Lord, often represented as those who hate him - hatred being always in fact or in form connected with an unwillingness to submit to God. It is hatred of his law; hatred of his government; hatred of his plans; hatred of his character. See Rom 1:30; Joh 7:7, Joh 15:18, Joh 15:23-25. Compare Exo 20:5.
Should have submitted themselves unto him - Margin, yielded retained obedience. Hebrew, lied. See the phrase explained in the notes at Psa 18:44. The meaning is, that they would have been so subdued as to acknowledge his authority or supremacy, while it is, at the same time, implied that this would have been forced and not cordial. No external power, though it may so conquer as to make people outwardly obedient, can affect the will, or subdue that. The grace of God alone can do that, and it is the special triumph of grace that it can do it.
But their time - The time of his people. They would have continued to be a happy and a flourishing nation.
Should have endured for ever - Perpetually - as long as they continued to be obedient. If a nation were obedient to the will of God; if it wholly obeyed his laws; if it countenanced by statute no form of sin; if it protected no iniquity; if it were temperate, just, virtuous, honest, there is no reason why its institutions should not be perpetual, or why it should ever be overthrown. Sin is, in all cases, the cause of the ruin of nations, as it is of individuals. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Him - Unto Israel. Their time - Their happy time. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Their time should have endured for ever - That is, Their prosperity should have known no end. |
44 As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
7 The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,