Psalms 81:10

I am the Lord thy God,.... The true Jehovah, the Being of beings, in whom all live and move and have their beings, the covenant God of his people; and is a reason why they should hear him, and worship…

I am the Lord thy God ... - See Exo 20:2. The meaning is, “I am Yahweh, that God; the God to be worshipped and honored by thee; I only am thy God, and no other god is to be recognized or acknowledged…

God, by the psalmist, here speaks to Israel, and in them to us, on whom the ends of the world are come.

I. He demands their diligent and serious attention to what he was about to say (Psa 81:8):…

I am Jehovah thy God,

Which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

Cp. Exo 20:2 ff.; Deu 20:1. To Jehovah Israel owed its existence. The fact that He redeemed it from Egypt constituted His claim…