Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 81:4
For this is no human device, but an appointment and command of the great God, and your Lord.
For this is no human device, but an appointment and command of the great God, and your Lord.
Verse Psalms 81:4. _THIS_ WAS _A STATUTE FOR ISRAEL_] See the statute, Numbers 10:10, and Leviticus 23:24....
FOR THIS WAS A STATUTE FOR ISRAEL ... - See Exodus 12:3. That is, it was a law for the whole Jewish people, for all who had the name Israel, for all the descendants of Jacob. The word was is not in th...
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...
For it is a statute for Israel, An ordinance of the God of Jacob. (R.V.) _It_refers to the feast. The title _God of Jacob_carries our thoughts back beyond the Exodus to the providential dealings of...
The reason for the celebration in the divine appointment of the festival as a memorial of God's goodness to Israel....
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...
For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. FOR THIS WAS A STATUE FOR ISRAEL AND A LAW OF THE GOD OF JACOB. "This" - i:e., the observance of the "solemn feast day." "A law" -...
After a summons to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles (Psalms 81:1) this Ps. recalls the meaning of Israel's national festivals as memorials of their deliverance from Egypt (Psalms 81:4). From Psalms...
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
FOR THIS. — Better, _for it is a statute._ Referring either to the feast itself or to the mode of celebrating it. LAW. — Literally, _judgment,_ as LXX. and Vulg....
_[Psalms 81:5]_ כִּ֤י חֹ֣ק לְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל ה֑וּא...
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...
Moses appointed certain seasons of memorial; such, for example, as the passover; Exodus 12:23....
4_For this is a statute to Israel. _To give the more effect to the preceding exhortation, it is here taught that this law or ordinance had been prescribed to God’s ancient people, for the purpose of r...
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,...
FOR THIS WAS A STATUTE FOR ISRAEL,.... It was not a piece of will worship, or device of the children of Israel, but was of divine institution; that the passover should be kept at the time it was; and...
For this [was] a statute for Israel, [and] a law of the God of Jacob. Ver. 4. _For this was a statute_] The keeping of it therefore is not arbitrary, but necessary: _Aut faciendum aut patiendum._ An...
_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...
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...
For this was a statute, for Israel, pertaining to the precepts governing the covenant people, AND A LAW OF THE GOD OF JACOB, fixed by Him to regulate the customs of the feasts....
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...
Psalms 81:4 statute H2706 Israel H3478 law H4941 God H430 Jacob H3290...
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 15:25; Genesis 18:19; Genesis 18:25; Leviticus 5:10; Psalms 1:5