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Verse Psalms 81:5. _I HEARD A LANGUAGE I UNDERSTOOD NOT._] This
passage is difficult. Who heard? And _what_ was heard? All the
_Versions_, except the _Chaldee_, read the pronoun in the _third_
person...
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THIS HE ORDAINED IN JOSEPH FOR A TESTIMONY - literally, he placed
this; that is, he appointed it. The word Joseph here stands for the
whole Hebrew people, as in Psalms 80:1. See the notes at that vers...
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Psalms 81
Hope Revived: His Gracious Return to Israel
_ 1. The blowing of the trumpet (Psalms 81:1)_
2. His loving call to His people (Psalms 81:6)
3. Gracious results promised ...
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LXXXI. This Ps. is probably composite.
A. PSALMS 81:1. A FESTAL HYMN, specially adapted for the old New
Year's Day or Feast of Trumpets (p. 104), which was held on the new
moon of Tishri, the seventh...
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THIS. No Hebrew for "This".
HE: i.e. God.
OUT. forth.
THROUGH. before: i.e. in the sight of. Compare Numbers 33:3.
I. I [Israel]....
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The reason for the celebration in the divine appointment of the
festival as a memorial of God's goodness to Israel....
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He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony (R.V.): to bear continual
witness to His care of Israel. _when_&c. Render, When he (i.e. God)
went out against (or _over_) the land of Egypt, to execute judge...
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THIS HE ORDAINED IN JOSEPH— _A solemn charge, which he laid on
Joseph when he marched out in the face of the land of Egypt. I heard a
language I did not know:_ Psalms 81:6. _I removed,_ &c. God is
ass...
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PSALMS 81
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE
A Mission-Song, to be Sung to the Northern Tribes.
ANALYSIS
Stanza I., Psalms 81:1-5, A Festive Celebration Invoked; in which
People, Levites, and Priests can Recall the...
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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.
-The deliverance described on which God's claim on Israel and...
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Psalms 73:89
_GORDON CHURCHYARD_
START THE MUSIC!
PSALMS 81
Jesus said, "Can the bridegroom’s friends be sad when the
bridegroom is with them?" (Matthew
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JOSEPH. — The prominence given to this name indicates, according to
some critics, that the author belonged to the northern kingdom:. but
when a poet was wishing to vary his style of speaking of the wh...
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_[Psalms 81:6]_ עֵ֤דוּת ׀ בִּֽ יהֹ֘וסֵ֤ף
שָׂמֹ֗ו בְּ֭...
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Psalms 81:1
THE psalmist summons priests and people to a solemn festival,
commemorative of Israel's deliverance from Egypt, and sets forth the
lessons which that deliverance teaches, the learning of w...
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SING UNTO GOD, THE DELIVERER
Psalms 81:1
It is supposed that this psalm was composed for use at the great
Hebrew festivals and especially at the Passover, which is referred to
in Psalms 81:5; Psalms...
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This is a psalm for the Feast of Trumpets. In the calendar of the
Hebrews this feast prepared the way for the Day of Atonement and the
Feast of Tabernacles. The first day of the seventh month was the...
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This he ordained in (d) Joseph [for] a testimony, when he went out
through the land of Egypt: [where] I heard a language [that] (e) I
understood not.
(d) That is, in Israel for Joseph's family was co...
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_Moved. The ignorance, inapplication, and injustice of those in power
overturn the state, which is supported by justice, Proverbs xiv. 34.
They draw down God's curse upon the land, (St. Jerome; Calmet...
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Moses appointed certain seasons of memorial; such, for example, as the
passover; Exodus 12:23....
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5_He set it for a testimony in Joseph. _The Hebrew word עדוה _,
eduth, _is by some derived from עדה _, adah, _which signifies _to
adorn; _and they translate it _the honor _or _ornament _of Joseph. But...
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Psalms 81, while celebrating in figure the restoration of Israel,
again returns to historical ground, specially introducing Joseph, who
represents the ten tribes (see Ezekiel 37:16). Otherwise Judah,...
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THIS HE ORDAINED IN JOSEPH FOR A TESTIMONY,.... That is, this law
concerning the blowing of trumpets on the new moon, and the keeping
the solemn feast at the full of the moon, was made to be observed...
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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.
Ver. 5. _This he ordained in Joseph_] Put for all Israel,...
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_For this was a statute for Israel_ This is no human device, but a
divine institution; God hath appointed and commanded this solemn feast
to be announced and observed in this manner. _This_ Namely, th...
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A JOYFUL SALUTATION AND GOD'S RESPONSE.
To the chief musician upon Gittith, to be sung to the accompaniment of
the zitherlike instrument which David brought along from the
Philistine city of Gath, a...
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This He ordained in Joseph, this one tribe here representing the
entire nation, FOR A TESTIMONY, WHEN HE WENT OUT THROUGH THE LAND OF
EGYPT, in preparing for the exodus of His people; for from that ti...
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THROUGH:
Or, against...
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1-7 All the worship we can render to the Lord is beneath his
excellences, and our obligations to him, especially in our redemption
from sin and wrath. What God had done on Israel's behalf, was kept i...
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THIS HE ORDAINED, to wit, the blowing of trumpets. _In Joseph_; among
the posterity of Joseph, to wit, the people of Israel, as is evident
both from the foregoing verse, where they are called Israel,...
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Psalms 81:5 established H7760 (H8804) Joseph H3084 testimony H5715
throughout H3318 (H8800) land H776 Egypt H4714 heard
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Psalms 81:1. _Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise
unto the God of Jacob._
In these days, the Psalm would have to be altered if they are to suit
the dogmas of modern thought, for «th...
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We have here an exhortation to praise God; and this is always in
season. Perhaps we need more stirring up to praise than to prayer, yet
it ought to be as natural for us to praise God as it is for the...
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CONTENTS: God chides His people for their ingratitude and pictures
their happy state had they but obeyed Him.
CHARACTERS: God, Asaph, Joseph, Jacob.
CONCLUSION: God gives those up to their own heart...
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This psalm was composed for the festival of tabernacles, when the
people celebrated the deliverance from Egypt. It was a statute in
Israel on the first day of the Hebrew month of _Tisri,_ or the new
m...
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_Where I heard a language that I understood not._
IGNORANCE OF THE LANGUAGE OF A COMMUNITY
It is by no means uncommon for men to be thrown into a community of
whose language they are entirely ignora...
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_Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of
Jacob._
A REVELATION OF THREE GREAT SUBJECTS
I. True worship (verses1-5)
1. True worship is the highest happiness, which consi...
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PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 81:1. This psalm resembles the OT
prophets’ oracles, so perhaps it is best to think of it as a
prophetic hymn. The primary function of the OT prophets is to
challenge God’s...
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 81:4 THE GOD OF JACOB worked on behalf of his
people to deliver them from slavery in EGYPT (see Exodus 6:6)....
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INTRODUCTION
_Superscription_.—“_To the chief Musician upon Gittith_.”
Gittith is explained in several ways. One interpretation is that it
was a musical instrument invented in Gath, or common among th...
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EXPOSITION
PROFESSOR CHEYNE regards this psalm as composed of "two distinct
lyrical passages," accidentally thrown together (compare his theory of
Psalms 19:1, Psalms 24:1, Psalms 36:1
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Let's turn to Psalms 81:1-16.
On the first day of the seventh month in the Jewish calendar, which,
because their calendar begins, the religious calendar begins the first
of April, it usually coincides...
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1 Corinthians 14:21; 1 Corinthians 14:22; Amos 6:6; Deuteronomy 28:49;...
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Joseph — Among the people of Israel. Testimony — For a witness of
that glorious deliverance. He — God. Went — As a captain at the
head of his people. Egypt — To execute his judgments upon that land.
I...