Psalms 81:6
I haue withdrawen his shoulder from the burden, and his handes haue left the pots.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 1:14Thus they made them weary of their liues by sore labour in clay and in bricke, and in al worke in the fielde, with all maner of bondage, which they layde vpon them most cruelly.
1 Chronicles 4:23These were potters, and dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his worke.
Psalms 114:1When Israel went out of Egypt, and the house of Iaakob from the barbarous people,
Isaiah 9:4For the yoke of their burthen, and the staffe of their shoulder and the rod of their oppressour hast thou broken as in the day of Midian.
Matthew 11:29Take my yoke on you, and learne of me that I am meeke and lowly in heart: and ye shall finde rest vnto your soules.
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 →