Parallel Verses
NET Bible
If only my people would obey me! If only Israel would keep my commands!
New American Standard Bible
That Israel would
King James Version
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
Holman Bible
and Israel would follow My ways,
International Standard Version
If only my people would obey me, if only Israel would walk in my ways!
A Conservative Version
O that my people would hearken to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
American Standard Version
Oh that my people would hearken unto me, That Israel would walk in my ways!
Amplified
“Oh, that My people would listen to Me,
That Israel would walk in My ways!
Bible in Basic English
If only my people would give ear to me, walking in my ways!
Darby Translation
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, that Israel had walked in my ways!
Julia Smith Translation
Would that my people heard to me! Israel shall go in my ways.
King James 2000
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
Lexham Expanded Bible
Oh that my people would listen to me; [that] Israel would walk in my ways.
Modern King James verseion
Oh that My people had listened to Me, and Israel had walked in My ways!
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
O that my people would obey me! For if Israel would walk in my ways,
New Heart English Bible
Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways.
The Emphasized Bible
If, my people, were hearkening unto me, If, Israel, in my ways, would walk,
Webster
O that my people had hearkened to me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
World English Bible
Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
Youngs Literal Translation
O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 81:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Call To Obedience
12 I gave them over to their stubborn desires; they did what seemed right to them. 13 If only my people would obey me! If only Israel would keep my commands! 14 Then I would quickly subdue their enemies, and attack their adversaries."
Names
Cross References
Deuteronomy 5:29
If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.
Isaiah 48:18
If only you had obeyed my commandments, prosperity would have flowed to you like a river, deliverance would have come to you like the waves of the sea.
Deuteronomy 32:29
I wish that they were wise and could understand this, and that they could comprehend what will happen to them."
Deuteronomy 10:12-13
Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you except to revere him, to obey all his commandments, to love him, to serve him with all your mind and being,
Matthew 23:37
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!
Luke 19:41-42
Now when Jesus approached and saw the city, he wept over it,