Psalm 81:11

A Call To Obedience

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“I am the Lord your God,
Who brought you up from the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide and I will fill it. ¹¹ 
“But My people would not listen to My voice,
And Israel did not [consent to] obey Me.
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“So I gave them up to the stubbornness of their heart,
To walk in [the path of] their own counsel.

Give Ear

Listen to Me

My People

Obey My Voice

Submit to

Israel

Exodus 32:1

Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, they gathered together before Aaron and said to him, “Come, make us a god who will go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.”

Deuteronomy 32:15

“But Jeshurun (Israel) became fat and kicked [at God].
You became fat, thick, sleek, and obstinate!
Then he abandoned God who had made him,
And scorned the Rock of his salvation.

Deuteronomy 32:18

“You were unmindful of the Rock who bore you,
And you forgot the God who gave you birth.

Proverbs 1:30

They would not accept my counsel,
And they spurned all my rebuke.

Psalm 106:12-13

Then Israel believed in [the validity of] His words;
They sang His praise.

Jeremiah 2:11-13

“Has a nation [ever] changed gods
Even though they were not gods [but merely man-made objects]?
But My people have exchanged their Glory (the true God)
For that [man-made idol] which does not benefit [them].

Jeremiah 7:23-24

But this thing I did command them: ‘Listen to and obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people; and you will walk in all the way which I command you, so that it may be well with you.’

Zechariah 7:11

But they refused to listen and pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder [stiffening themselves in resistance] and stopped up their ears.

Hebrews 10:29

How much greater punishment do you think he will deserve who has rejected and trampled under foot the Son of God, and has considered unclean and common the blood of the covenant that sanctified him, and has insulted the Spirit of grace [who imparts the unmerited favor and blessing of God]?