Psalms 81:7
In your distress you called out, and I helped you; 1 I answered you from a dark thundercloud. 1 I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah 1
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6“I removed the burden from his shoulder; 1 his hands were freed from holding the basket. 1
8Listen, my people, for I will warn you, 1 Israel, if you would only listen to me! 1
Cross References
Exodus 6:6Therefore, say to the Israelites, 'I am Yahweh. I will bring you out from slavery under the Egyptians, and I will free you from their power. I will rescue you with a display of my power, and with mighty acts of judgment.
Exodus 14:24But in the early morning hours, Yahweh looked down on the Egyptian army through the pillar of fire and cloud. He caused panic among the Egyptians.
Exodus 17:2So the people blamed Moses for their situation and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”
Exodus 20:2“I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Numbers 20:13This place was called the waters of Meribah because the people of Israel had quarreled with Yahweh there, and he showed himself to them as holy.
Deuteronomy 5:6'I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of 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 →