VERSE STUDY • KJV

Psalm 81:4

For this [was] a statute for Israel, [and] a law of the God of Jacob.

Read it in 5 translations

For this [was] a statute for Israel, [and] a law of the God of Jacob.

For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.

For it is a statute for Israel, An ordinance of the God of Jacob.

For a statute to Israel it is, An ordinance of the God of Jacob.

1 To the chief Musician upon Gittith, [A Psalm] of Asaph. 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 burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.

7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

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HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION

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