Psalms 81:6
I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 1:14and they embittered their life with hard labour in clay and bricks, and in all manner of labour in the field: all their labour with which they made them serve was with harshness.
1 Chronicles 4:23These were the potters, and those that abode among plantations and enclosures: there they dwelt with the king for his work.
Psalms 114:1When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language,
Isaiah 9:4For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
Matthew 11:29Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls;
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 →