Psalms 81:4

Rescue the poor, and free the needy from the hand of the sinner.

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In The King James Version

For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.

In Context

3Judge for the indigent and the orphan. Do justice to the humble and the poor.

5They did not know and did not understand. They wander in darkness. All the foundations of the earth will be moved.

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Cross References

Numbers 28:11Then, on the first day of the month, you shall offer a holocaust to the Lord: two calves from the herd, one ram, seven immaculate one-year-old lambs,

Matthew Henry on Psalms 81:2-8

An Invitation to Praise. 1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. 2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. 3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. 4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. 5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not. 6 I removed his shoulder from the… Read the whole commentary →

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