Psalms 81 · Verse 11

Psalms 81:11

But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
Psalms 81:11, King James Version

Psalms 81:11 in other translations

BSBBut My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.
WEBBut my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.
ASVBut my people hearkened not to my voice; And Israel would none of me.
YLTBut, My people hearkened not to My voice, And Israel hath not consented to Me.
DARBYBut my people hearkened not to my voice, and Israel would none of me.
BBEBut my people did not give ear to my voice; Israel would have nothing to do with me.
WebsterBut my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would not obey me.

What does Psalms 81:11 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 81:11-12
11-12. They failed, and He gave them up to their own desires and hardness of heart (De 29:18; Pr 1:30; Ro 11:25).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 11 Israel would none of me - לא אבה לי lo abah li, They willed me not, they would not have me for their God.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 81:8-16

We cannot look for too little from the creature, nor too much from the Creator. We may have enough from God, if we pray for it in faith. All the wickedness of the world is owing to man's wilfulness. People are not religious, because they will not be so. God is not the Author of their sin, he leaves them to the lusts of their own hearts, and the counsels of their own heads; if they do not well, the blame must be upon…

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Psalms 81:11 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְלֹא\־ve.lo'-and notH3808
שָׁמַ֣עsha.Ma'it listenedH8085
עַמִּ֣י'a.Mipeople myH5971
לְקוֹלִ֑יle.ko.Lito voice myH6963
וְ֝יִשְׂרָאֵ֗לve.Yis.ra.'Eland IsraelH3478
לֹא\־lo'-notH3808
אָ֥בָה'A.vahit yieldedH14
לִֽי\׃Lito me

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 81:11

  • Jeremiah 7:23-24

    But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.

  • Deuteronomy 32:18

    Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.

  • Jeremiah 2:11-13

    Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord. For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

  • Exodus 32:1

    And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.

  • Zechariah 7:11

    But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

  • Proverbs 1:30

    They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

  • Deuteronomy 32:15

    But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

  • Hebrews 10:29

    Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

  • Psalms 106:12-13

    Then believed they his words; they sang his praise. They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:

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people.
106:12,13; Jer 2:11-13; 7:23,24; Zec 7:11
would none.
Ex 32:1; De 32:15,18; Pr 1:30; Heb 10:29

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Context

  • Psalms 81:10

    I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

  • Psalms 81:11

    But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.

  • Psalms 81:12

    So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

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Psalms 81:11 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Mas mi pueblo no oyó mi voz, é Israel no me quiso á mí.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Moi, je suis l’ Éternel, ton Dieu, qui t’ai fait monter du pays d’Égypte; ouvre ta bouche toute grande, et je la remplirai.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Aber mein Volk hat nicht auf meine Stimme gehört, und Israel ist nicht willig gegen mich gewesen.