Psalm 81:11
New International Version
“But my people would not listen to me; Israel would not submit to me.

New Living Translation
“But no, my people wouldn’t listen. Israel did not want me around.

English Standard Version
“But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me.

Berean Standard Bible
But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.

King James Bible
But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.

New King James Version
“But My people would not heed My voice, And Israel would have none of Me.

New American Standard Bible
“But My people did not listen to My voice, And Israel did not obey Me.

NASB 1995
“But My people did not listen to My voice, And Israel did not obey Me.

NASB 1977
“But My people did not listen to My voice; And Israel did not obey Me.

Legacy Standard Bible
“But My people did not listen to My voice, And Israel was not willing to obey Me.

Amplified Bible
“But My people would not listen to My voice, And Israel did not [consent to] obey Me.

Christian Standard Bible
“But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel did not obey me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But My people did not listen to Me; Israel did not obey Me.

American Standard Version
But my people hearkened not to my voice; And Israel would none of me.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And my people did not listen to my voice and Israel was not persuaded by me.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
But my people hearkened not to my voice; and Israel gave no heed to me.

Contemporary English Version
"But, my people, Israel, you refused to listen, and you would have nothing to do with me!

Douay-Rheims Bible
But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me.

English Revised Version
But my people hearkened not to my voice; and Israel would none of me.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"But my people did not listen to me. Israel wanted nothing to do with me.

Good News Translation
"But my people would not listen to me; Israel would not obey me.

International Standard Version
Yet my people didn't obey my voice; Israel didn't submit to me.

JPS Tanakh 1917
But My people hearkened not to My voice; And Israel would none of Me.

Literal Standard Version
But My people did not listen to My voice, | And Israel has not consented to Me.

Majority Standard Bible
But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.

New American Bible
But my people did not listen to my words; Israel would not submit to me.

NET Bible
But my people did not obey me; Israel did not submit to me.

New Revised Standard Version
“But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me.

New Heart English Bible
But my people did not listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

Webster's Bible Translation
But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would not obey me.

World English Bible
But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.

Young's Literal Translation
But, My people hearkened not to My voice, And Israel hath not consented to Me.

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Context
Sing for Joy to God, Our Strength
10I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth, and I will fill it. 11But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me. 12So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:15
But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked--becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

Psalm 106:25
They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.

Proverbs 1:30
They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.

Isaiah 65:2
All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations,

Jeremiah 7:24
Yet 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.

Jeremiah 13:11
For just as a loincloth clings to a man's waist, so I have made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to Me, declares the LORD, so that they might be My people for My renown and praise and glory. But they did not listen.


Treasury of Scripture

But my people would not listen to my voice; and Israel would none of me.

people

Psalm 106:12,13
Then believed they his words; they sang his praise…

Jeremiah 2:11-13
Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit…

Jeremiah 23:24
Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.

would none

Exodus 32:1
And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.

Deuteronomy 32:15,18
But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation…

Proverbs 1:30
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

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Psalm 81
1. An exhortation to a solemn praising of God
4. God challenges that duty by reason of his benefits
8. God, exhorting to obedience, complains of their disobedience, which proves their own hurt.














Verse 11. - But my people would not hearken to my voice (comp. Psalm 78:10, 41, 56; 2 Kings 17:14; 2 Chronicles 36:15, 16). And Israel would none of me; literally, would not obey me (see the Prayer book Version).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
But My people
עַמִּ֣י (‘am·mî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

would not
וְלֹא־ (wə·lō-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

listen to Me,
שָׁמַ֣ע (šā·ma‘)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently

and Israel
וְ֝יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל (wə·yiś·rā·’êl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc

would not
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

obey
אָ֥בָה (’ā·ḇāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 14: To breathe after, to be acquiescent

Me.
לִֽי׃ (lî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew


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