Psalms 81:5
A testimony in Joseph, he appointed it, When he went forth over the land of Egypt: A language I liked not, used I to hear;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
4For, a statute to Israel, it is, A regulation, by the God of Jacob;
6I took away, from the burden, his shoulder, his hands, from the clay, were set free.
Cross References
Exodus 12:12I will pass along, therefore, throughout the land of Egypt this night, and will smite every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from man even to beast,—and against all the gods of Egypt, will I execute judgments—I, Yahweh.
Exodus 12:29And it came to pass, at midnight, that Yahweh, smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat upon his throne, unto the firstborn of the captive who was in the pit of his prison,—and every firstborn of beasts.
Exodus 13:14And it shall be when thy son shall ask thee in time to come, saying, What is this? Then shalt thou say unto him: With strength of hand, did Yahweh bring us forth out of Egypt out of the house of slaves.
Deuteronomy 28:49Yahweh will bring against thee a nation from afar, from the end of the earth, as darteth a bird of prey,—a nation whose tongue thou canst not understand;
Psalms 78:6To the end, A later generation, might come to know, Children who should be born, Who should arise, and recount [them] to their children;
Psalms 114:1When Israel came forth out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from among a people of strange tongue,
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 →