Psalms 81:6

From the burden his shoulder I turned aside, His hands from the basket pass over.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.

In Context

5A testimony on Joseph He hath placed it, In his going forth over the land of Egypt. A lip, I have not known — I hear.

7In distress thou hast called and I deliver thee, I answer thee in the secret place of thunder, I try thee by the waters of Meribah. Selah.

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Cross References

Exodus 1:14and make their lives bitter in hard service, in clay, and in brick, and in every [kind] of service in the field; all their service in which they have served [is] with rigour.

1 Chronicles 4:23They [are] the potters and inhabitants of Netaim and Gedera; with the king in his work they dwelt there.

Psalms 114:1In the going out of Israel from Egypt, The house of Jacob from a strange people,

Isaiah 9:4Because the yoke of its burden, And the staff of its shoulder, the rod of its exactor, Thou hast broken as [in] the day of Midian.

Matthew 11:29take up my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and humble in heart, and ye shall find rest to 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 →

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