‘Listen, my people, and I will speak; I will testify against you, Israel: I am God, your God.
Psalm 81:8 - New International Version (Anglicised) Hear me, my people, and I will warn you – if you would only listen to me, Israel! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Hear, O My people, and I will admonish you–O Israel, if you would listen to Me! American Standard Version (1901) Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wouldest hearken unto me! Common English Bible Listen, my people, I’m warning you! If only you would listen to me, Israel. Catholic Public Domain Version Rise up, O God. Judge the earth. For you will inherit it with all the nations. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Arise, O God, judge thou the earth: for thou shalt inherit among all the nations. |
‘Listen, my people, and I will speak; I will testify against you, Israel: I am God, your God.
‘If my people would only listen to me, if Israel would only follow my ways,
He said, ‘If you listen carefully to the Lord your God and do what is right in his eyes, if you pay attention to his commands and keep all his decrees, I will not bring on you any of the diseases I brought on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, who heals you.’
And he called the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarrelled and because they tested the Lord saying, ‘Is the Lord among us or not?’
On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled.
If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the good things of the land;
These were the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarrelled with the Lord and where he was proved holy among them.
Very truly I tell you, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony.
I have declared to both Jews and Greeks that they must turn to God in repentance and have faith in our Lord Jesus.
he said to them, ‘Take to heart all the words I have solemnly declared to you this day, so that you may command your children to obey carefully all the words of this law.
Go near and listen to all that the Lord our God says. Then tell us whatever the Lord our God tells you. We will listen and obey.’
We accept human testimony, but God’s testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he has given about his Son.