Psalm 81:13

Good News Translation

How I wish my people would listen to me; how I wish they would obey me!

Cross References

Proverbs 1:31

So then, you will get what you deserve, and your own actions will make you sick.

Isaiah 48:18

“If only you had listened to my commands! Then blessings would have flowed for you like a stream that never goes dry. Victory would have come to you like the waves that roll on the shore.

Jeremiah 7:24

But they did not obey or pay any attention. Instead, they did whatever their stubborn and evil hearts told them to do, and they became worse instead of better.

Matthew 23:37

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets and stone the messengers God has sent you! How many times I wanted to put my arms around all your people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not let me!

Deuteronomy 32:29

They fail to see why they were defeated; they cannot understand what happened.

Deuteronomy 5:29

If only they would always feel this way! If only they would always honor me and obey all my commands, so that everything would go well with them and their descendants forever.