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 counted the chief while before, Judah was preferred.
(e) God speaks in the person of the people because he was their leader.
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...
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...
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...
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]....
The reason for the celebration in the divine appointment of the festival as a memorial of God's goodness to Israel....
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...
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...
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...
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...
HE WENT OUT THROUGH] RV 'he went over' (RM 'against'): cp. Exodus 13, etc. 'He' refers to God. _Where_ I HEARD.. UNDERSTOOD NOT] rather, 'I heard the speech of one that I knew not,' i.e. of God. The P...
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
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...
_[Psalms 81:6]_ עֵ֤דוּת ׀ בִּֽ יהֹ֘וסֵ֤ף שָׂמֹ֗ו בְּ֭...
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...
_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...
Moses appointed certain seasons of memorial; such, for example, as the passover; Exodus 12:23....
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
_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...
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...
THROUGH: Or, against...
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...
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,...
Psalms 81:5 established H7760 (H8804) Joseph H3084 testimony H5715 throughout H3318 (H8800) land H776 Egypt H4714 heard
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...
_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...
_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...
1 Corinthians 14:21; 1 Corinthians 14:22; Amos 6:6; Deuteronomy 28:49;...
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...