Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Psalms 81:6
Pots] RV 'basket.' Baskets for carrying bricks, etc., are often represented on the Egyptian monuments.
Pots] RV 'basket.' Baskets for carrying bricks, etc., are often represented on the Egyptian monuments.
I 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 p...
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 ...
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...
I. I [God]. POTS. baskets. Depicted in Egyptian paintings as being used in brickmaking. Not same word as Psalms 68:13, though the same things referred to. Compare 2 Kings 10:7....
I have removed his shoulder from the burden: His hands shall go free from the basket. The term -basket" does not occur in Exodus, but baskets for carrying the burdens of bricks or clay so often refe...
HIS HANDS WERE DELIVERED FROM THE POTS— _His hands from the pots through which they had passed:_ Chandler. See Psalms 68:13....
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...
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...
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
POTS. — Deriving from a root to _boil,_ and with allusion to _potteries,_ which, probably, together with the _brick-kilns,_ formed the scene of the forced labour of Israel. The LXX. and Vulg. have “sl...
_[Psalms 81:7]_ הֲסִירֹ֣ותִי מִ סֵּ֣בֶל שִׁכְמֹ֑ו כַּ֝פָּ֗יו...
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...
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...
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...
I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the (f) pots. (f) If they were never able to give sufficient thanks to God, for this deliverance from corporal bondage, how much...
Gods. The people look upon you as such, and treat you with respect. But entertain not sentiments of pride on that account. (Calmet) --- If judges, even those whom God condemns, may be styled gods with...
The Reader, will remark, in this place, a change of the person speaking. In the preceding verses the church is speaking, and the members of it are calling upon one another to attend the service of the...
6_I have removed his shoulder from the burden. _Here God begins to recount the benefits which he had bestowed upon the Israelites, and the many ways in which he had laid them under obligations to him....
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,...
I REMOVED HIS SHOULDER FROM THE BURDEN,.... These are the words of God, declaring how he had delivered the Israelites from the oppression and cruelty of the Egyptians; who made their lives bitter in h...
I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots. Ver. 6. _I removed his shoulder from the burden_] From the woeful slavery of Egyptian tyrants and task masters, _Sordid...
_I removed his shoulder_ That is, the shoulder of my people; _from the burden_ I delivered them from the burdensome slavery of Egypt. _His hands were delivered from the pots_ Hebrew, מדוד תעברנה, _his...
I removed his shoulder from the burden, by setting His people free from the serfdom of Egypt; HIS HANDS WERE DELIVERED FROM THE POTS, from the baskets which the children of Israel were forced to carry...
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...
WERE DELIVERED: _ Heb._ passed away...
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...
I delivered him from burdensome slavery. _Pots_; as this word is taken, 1 SAMUEL 2:14 2 CHRONICLES 35:13. Or, _baskets_, as it signifies, 2 Kings 10:7...
Psalms 81:6 removed H5493 (H8689) shoulder H7926 burden H5447 hands H3709 freed H5674 (H8799) baskets H1731...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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)....
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...
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
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...
Exodus 1:14; Exodus 6:6; Isaiah 10:27; Isaiah 9:4; Matthew 11:29;...
Pots — This word denotes all those vessels wherein they carried water, straw, lime, or bricks....