Tree of Life Version
Psalms 81:6
6He set it up as a testimony in Joseph, when He went throughout the land of Egypt, I heard a language I did not understand.
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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“I removed his shoulder from the burden; His hands were freed from the baskets.
Context of Psalms 81:6
4Blow the shofar at the New Moon, at the full moon for the day of our festival. 5For it is a decree for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob. He set it up as a testimony in Joseph, when He went throughout the land of Egypt, I heard a language I did not understand. 7“I relieved his shoulder of the burden, his hands were set free from the basket. 8You called out in trouble, and I rescued you. I answered you from the hiding place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
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 labor with mortar and brick, doing all sorts of work in the fields. In all their labors they worked them with cruelty.
- Exodus 6:6Therefore say to Bnei-Yisrael: I am Adonai, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. I will deliver you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments.
- Isaiah 9:4For every stomping boot quaking and cloak rolled in blood will be for burning— fuel for the fire.
- Isaiah 10:27In that day his burden will be taken off your shoulders, and his yoke off your neck. Indeed, the yoke will be broken because of fatness.
- Matthew 11:29Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and ‘you will find rest for your souls.’
- 2 Kings 10:7When it came to pass that the letter reached them, they took the king’s 70 sons and slaughtered them, put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel.
- Jeremiah 24:2One basket had very good figs, like the figs that are first ripe, but the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
- Psalms 68:13“Kings of armies, flee, flee!” She who stays at home divides the spoil.
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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