Psalm 81:6 {80:7}
Good News Translation
"I took the burdens off your backs; I let you put down your loads of bricks.

New Revised Standard Version
“I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket.

Contemporary English Version
"I lifted the burden from your shoulder and took the heavy basket from your hands.

New American Bible
I heard a tongue I did not know: “I removed his shoulder from the burden; his hands moved away from the basket.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He removed his back from the burdens: his hands had served in baskets.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He removed his back from the burdens: his hands had served in baskets.

I removed

Exodus 1:14 And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay and brick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged in the works of the earth.

Exodus 6:6 Therefore say to the children of Israel: I am the Lord who will bring you out from the work-prison of the Egyptians, and will deliver you from bondage: and redeem you with a high arm, and great judgments.

Isaiah 9:4 For the yoke of their burden, and the rod of their shoulder, and the sceptre of their oppressor thou hast overcome, as in the day of Madian.

Isaiah 10:27 And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall putrefy at the presence of the oil.

Matthew 11:29 Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: And you shall find rest to your souls.

were delivered.

2 Kings 10:7 And when the letters came to them, they took the king's sons, and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jezrahel.

Jeremiah 24:2 One basket had very good figs, like the figs of the first season: and the other basket had very bad figs, which could not be eaten, because they were bad.

Exodus 1:14 And they made their life bitter with hard works in clay and brick, and with all manner of service, wherewith they were overcharged in the works of the earth.

Psalm 68:13 If you sleep among the midst of lots, you shall be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and the hinder parts of her back with the paleness of gold.

Context
Sing for Joy to God, Our Strength
5He ordained it for a testimony in Joseph, when he came out of the land of Egypt: he heard a tongue which he knew not. 6He removed his back from the burdens: his hands had served in baskets.7Thou calledst upon me in affliction, and I delivered thee: I heard thee in the secret place of tempest: I proved thee at the waters of contradiction.…
Cross References
Isaiah 9:4
For the yoke of their burden, and the rod of their shoulder, and the sceptre of their oppressor thou hast overcome, as in the day of Madian.

Isaiah 10:27
And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall putrefy at the presence of the oil.

Psalm 81:5
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