Psalms 81:6

(81:7) I removed from the burden his shoulder: his hands left behind the burden-basket.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5(81:6) As a testimony in Joseph did he ordain it, when he went out over the land of Egypt. The language of one I had not known did I hear.

7(81:8) In distress thou didst call, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret of the 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 labor, in mortar, and in bricks, and in all manner of labor in the field; in all their service, wherein they made them labor with rigor.

1 Chronicles 4:23There were the potters, and those that dwelt in plantations and sheepfolds: for the king's sake to do his work they dwelt there.

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

Isaiah 9:4(9:3) For the yoke of their burden, and the staff on their shoulder, the rod of their oppressor, hast thou broken, as on 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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