Psalms 81:6

(81-7) 'I removed his shoulder from the burden; His hands were freed from the basket.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.

In Context

5(81-6) He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when He went forth against the land of Egypt. The speech of one that I knew not did I hear:

7(81-8) Thou didst call in trouble, and I rescued thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder; I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah

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Cross References

Exodus 1:14And they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field; in all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigour.

1 Chronicles 4:23These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plantations and hedges; there they dwelt occupied in the king's work.

Psalms 114:1When Israel came forth out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;

Isaiah 9:4(9-3) For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, Thou hast broken as in the day of Midian.

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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