VERSE STUDY • KJV

Psalm 81:6

I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.

Read it in 5 translations

I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.

“I relieved his shoulder of the burden; his hands were freed from the basket.

“I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.

I removed his shoulder from the burden: His hands were freed from the basket.

From the burden his shoulder I turned aside, His hands from the basket pass over.

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.

8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;

9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.

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HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION

Put Matthew Henry, Adam Clarke, Calvin, Wesley, Barnes, Jamieson–Fausset–Brown, Aquinas’ Catena and other public-domain sources beside the passage.