Psalms 81:6
“I took the load from your shoulders; I freed your hands from carrying heavy baskets.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 1:14making their lives a misery. They made them do hard labor, building with mortar and brick, and all kinds of heavy work in the fields. In all of this hard labor they treated them brutally.
1 Chronicles 4:23They were potters, inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah, who lived there and worked for the king.
Psalms 114:1At the time of the exodus of Israel from Egypt, when the descendants of Jacob left that foreign country,
Isaiah 9:4For you will smash the yoke that burdens them down, the bar across their shoulders, and the oppressors' rod used to beat them just as you did when you defeated the Midianite army.
Matthew 11:29Accept my yoke, and learn from me. For I am kind and have a humble heart, and in me you will find the rest you need.
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 →