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Psalms 81:11

Western Saints

Augustine of Hippo

"And My people obeyed not My voice" [Psalm 81:11]. For He would not speak these things except to His own people. For, "we know that whatsoever things the Law says, it says to them that are in the Law." [Romans 3:19] "And Israel did not listen to Me." Who? To whom? Israel to Me. O ungrateful soul! Through Me the soul, by Me the soul called, by Me brought back to hope, by Me washed from sins! …

Exposition on Psalm 81 ↗

Jerome

And my people did not hear my voice. I stand before the door, I knock. I want you to open, and I will come in: and you are unwilling to open. And Israel did not attend to me.

Homily 13, on Psalm 80 ↗

Bonaventure

Transgressors of the commandments plunge into abominable crimes. Of such transgressors the Psalm says: "My people did not hear My voice, and Israel did not attend to Me, and I dismissed them according to the desires of their hearts." For the Lord delivers such transgressors into the hands of demons.

Collationes de Decem Praeceptis, Collation 1 ↗