Psalms 81:14

The haters of the Lord should have submitted themselves unto him,.... Or, "lied unto him" (h); feignedly submitted to him, flattered him, pretended friendship to him, and entered into a league with…

I should soon have subdued their enemies - This is one of the consequences which, it is said, would have followed if they had been obedient to the laws of God. The phrase rendered soon means literally…

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 should soon subdue their enemies,

And turn my hand against their adversaries.

In my waysis the contrast to in their own counsels. (Jer 7:23-24.) The hand which is now turned against Israel in…