Psalms 81:7
(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.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
6(81:7) I removed from the burden his shoulder: his hands left behind the burden-basket.
Cross References
Exodus 6:6Therefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the Eternal, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will release you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments:
Exodus 14:24And it came to pass in the morning watch, that the Lord looked unto the camp of the Egyptians with the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and brought into confusion the camp of the Egyptians;
Exodus 17:2And the people quarrelled with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink; and Moses said unto them, Why will ye quarrel with me? why will ye tempt the Lord?
Exodus 20:2I am the Lord thy God, who have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Numbers 20:13These are the waters of Meribah; where the children of Israel quarreled with the Lord, and through which he was sanctified.
Deuteronomy 5:6I am the Lord thy God, who have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.
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 →