Psalms 81:6
I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were freed from the basket.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 1:14and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigour.
1 Chronicles 4:23These were the potters, and the inhabitants of Netaim and Gederah: there they dwelt with the king for his work.
Psalms 114:1When Israel went forth out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
Isaiah 9:4For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, thou hast broken as in the day of Midian.
Matthew 11:29Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
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 →