Psalms 81:13
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways,”
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BSBPD
“If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Oh that my people would hearken unto me, That Israel would walk in my ways!”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Psalms 81:13 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 5:29If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever.
- Deuteronomy 10:12And now, O Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God by walking in all His ways, to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
- Deuteronomy 32:29If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
- Proverbs 1:31So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
- Isaiah 48:18If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.
- Jeremiah 7:24Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
- Matthew 23:37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!
- Luke 19:41As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it
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