Psalms 81:2
How long will ye judge unrighteously, and accept the persons of sinners? Pause.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
In Context
1A Psalm for Asaph. God stands in the assembly of gods; and in the midst of them will judge gods.
3Judge the orphan and poor: + 81:3 Gr. justify.do justice to the low and needy.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 5:13And there was one voice in the trumpeting and in the psalm-singing, and in the loud utterance with one voice to give thanks and praise the Lord; and when they raised their voice together with trumpets and cymbals, and instruments of music, and said, Give thanks to the Lord, for it is good, for his mercy endures for ever:—then the house was filled with the cloud of the glory of the Lord.
Psalms 95:1When the house was built after the Captivity, a Song by David. Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth.
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 →