“But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.”
The people's refusal of God is described: "But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me." The shift from God's offer to the people's rejection establishes the crisis addressed by the psalm: despite liberation and instruction, the people refuse to obey. Their refusal becomes a turning away from the foundational relationship.
Church Fathers on Psalms 81:11
1. For a Title this Psalm has, “Unto the end for the presses, on the fifth of the Sabbath, a Psalm to Asaph himself.” Into one title many mysteries are heaped together, still so that the lintel of the Psalm indicates the things within. As we have to speak of the presses, let no one expect that we shall speak of a vat, of a press, of olive baskets; because neither the Psalm has this, and therefore it indicates the greater mystery.... No such thing did ye hear in this when it…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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