Psalm 81:8 {80:9}
Good News Translation
Listen, my people, to my warning; Israel, how I wish you would listen to me!

New Revised Standard Version
Hear, O my people, while I admonish you; O Israel, if you would but listen to me!

Contemporary English Version
"Listen, my people, while I, the Lord, correct you! Israel, if you would only pay attention to me!

New American Bible
‘Listen, my people, I will testify against you Selah If only you will listen to me, Israel!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me,

hear

Psalm 50:7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak: O Israel, and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.

Deuteronomy 32:46 And he said to them: Set your hearts on all the words, which I testify to you this day: which you shall command your children to observe and to do, and to fulfil all that is written in this law:

Isaiah 55:3,4 Incline your ear and come to me: hear and your soul shall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the faithful mercies of David. . . .

John 3:11,32,33 Amen, amen, I say to thee that we speak what we know and we testify what we have seen: and you receive not our testimony. . . .

Acts 20:21 Testifying both to Jews and Gentiles penance towards God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 John 5:9 If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater. For this is the testimony of God, which is greater, because he hath testified of his Son.

if thou wilt

Psalm 81:13 If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways:

Exodus 15:26 Saying: If thou wilt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and do what is right before him, and obey his commandments, and keep all his precepts, none of the evils that I laid upon Egypt, will I bring upon thee: for I am the Lord thy healer.

Deuteronomy 5:27 Approach thou rather: and hear all things that the Lord our God shall say to thee, and thou shalt speak to us, and we will hear and will do them.

Isaiah 1:19 If you be willing, and will hearken to me, you shall eat the good things of the land.

Context
Sing for Joy to God, Our Strength
7Thou calledst upon me in affliction, and I delivered thee: I heard thee in the secret place of tempest: I proved thee at the waters of contradiction. 8Hear, O my people, and I will testify to thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken to me,9there shall be no new god in thee: neither shalt thou adore a strange god.…
Cross References
Psalm 50:7
Hear, O my people, and I will speak: O Israel, and I will testify to thee: I am God, thy God.

Psalm 81:13
If my people had heard me: if Israel had walked in my ways:

Psalm 95:7
For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand.

Psalm 81:7
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