Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
The verse is God's pleading with Israel, His invitation to His own people to hear Him and to receive and heed His testimony. Psalm 81 sets forth Israel's scattering as the result of forgetting God and refusing to hearken to Him. The call to hear warns against that neglect, standing as reproof and warning.
The same forgetting of God is taking place in the churches today, so the warning was written as admonition for the present generation upon whom the ends of the world are come. Its lesson is meat in due season and should be made an object of study in the schools for the youth. It also gives instruction in encouragement and rich promises.
The verse is God's pleading with Israel, His invitation to His own people to hear Him and to receive and heed His testimony. Psalm 81 sets forth Israel's scattering as the result of forgetting God and refusing to hearken to Him. The call to hear warns against that neglect, standing as reproof and warning.
The same forgetting of God is taking place in the churches today, so the warning was written as admonition for the present generation upon whom the ends of the world are come. Its lesson is meat in due season and should be made an object of study in the schools for the youth. It also gives instruction in encouragement and rich promises.