SEV Biblia, Chapter 81:13
¡Oh, si mi pueblo me oyera, si Israel anduviera en mis caminos!
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Psalms 80:13
Verse 13. O that my people had hearkened unto me, ] Israel had walked in my ways - Nothing can be more plaintive than the original; sense and sound are surprisingly united. I scruple not to say to him who understands the Hebrew, however learned, he has never found in any poet, Greek or Latin, a finer example of deep-seated grief, unable to express itself in appropriate words without frequent interruptions of sighs and sobs, terminated with a mournful cry. yl [m ym[ wl wklhy ykrdb yary Lo ammi shomea li Yishrael bidrachi yehallechu! He who can give the proper guttural pronunciation to the letter [ ain; and gives the w vau, and the y yod, their full Asiatic sound, not pinching them to death by a compressed and worthless European enunciation; will at once be convinced of the propriety of this remark.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 8-16 - We cannot look for too little from the creature, nor too much from the Creator. We may have enough from God, if we pray for it in faith. All the wickedness of the world is owing to man's wilfulness. People ar not religious, because they will not be so. God is not the Author of their sin, he leaves them to the lusts of their own hearts, and the counsels of their own heads; if they do not well, the blame must be upon themselves. The Lord is unwilling that any should perish. What enemies sinners are to themselves! It is sin that makes our trouble long, and our salvation slow. Upon the same conditions of faith an obedience, do Christians hold those spiritual and eternal good things which the pleasant fields and fertile hills of Canaan showed forth Christ is the Bread of life; he is the Rock of salvation, and his promises are as honey to pious minds. But those who reject him as their Lord and Master, must also lose him as their Saviour and their reward __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
לו 3863 עמי 5971 שׁמע 8085 לי ישׂראל 3478 בדרכי 1870 יהלכו׃ 1980
