Psalms 81:8
8 I said, ▼ ‘Listen, my people!
I will warn ▼
▼tn Or perhaps “command.”
you. O Israel, if only you would obey me! ▼
▼tn The Hebrew particle אִם (ʾim, “if”) and following prefixed verbal form here express a wish (GKC 321 §109.b). Note that the apodosis (the “then” clause of the conditional sentence) is suppressed.
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