English Standard Version
Psalms 81:6
6"I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket.
Psalms 81:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
- New International Version (NIV)“I removed the burden from their shoulders; their hands were set free from the basket.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“I removed his shoulder from the burden; His hands were freed from the baskets.
- New Living Translation (NLT)“Now I will take the load from your shoulders; I will free your hands from their heavy tasks.
Context of Psalms 81:6
4For it is a statute for Israel, a rule of the God of Jacob. 5He made it a decree in Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt. I hear a language I had not known: "I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket. 7In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah 8Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me!
Read all of Psalms 81Psalms 81:6 word by word
הֲסִיר֣וֹתִי מִסֵּ֣בֶל שִׁכְמ֑וֹ כַּ֝פָּ֗יו מִדּ֥וּד תַּעֲבֹֽרְנָה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 81:6
- Exodus 1:14and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.
- Exodus 6:6Say therefore to the people of Israel, 'I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment.
- Isaiah 9:4For the yoke of his burden, and the staff for his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian.
- Isaiah 10:27And in that day his burden will depart from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of the fat."
- Matthew 11:29Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
- 2 Kings 10:7And as soon as the letter came to them, they took the king's sons and slaughtered them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel.
- Jeremiah 24:2One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, but the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten.
- Psalms 68:13though you men lie among the sheepfolds— the wings of a dove covered with silver, its pinions with shimmering gold.
Commentaries on Psalms 81:6
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6I removed his shoulder from the burden - The burden which the people of Israel were called to hear in Egypt. The reference is undoubtedly to their burdens in making bricks, and conveying them to the place where they were to be used; and perhaps also to the fact that they were required to carry stone in building houses and towns for the Egyptians. Compare Exodus 1:11-14; Exodus 5:4-17. The meaning is, that he had saved them from these burdens, to wit, by…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-7The Lord heard Israel’s cry in Egypt and rescued them from oppressive slavery.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 66. God's language alludes to the burdensome slavery of the Israelites.Read the comment
In the dictionaries
Commentaries on Psalms 81
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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