Psalm 81:6
New International Version
“I removed the burden from their shoulders; their hands were set free from the basket.

New Living Translation
“Now I will take the load from your shoulders; I will free your hands from their heavy tasks.

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

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

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

New King James Version
“I removed his shoulder from the burden; His hands were freed from the baskets.

New American Standard Bible
“I relieved his shoulder of the burden, His hands were freed from the basket.

NASB 1995
“I relieved his shoulder of the burden, His hands were freed from the basket.

NASB 1977
“I relieved his shoulder of the burden, His hands were freed from the basket.

Legacy Standard Bible
“I relieved his shoulder of the burden, His hands were freed from the basket.

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

Christian Standard Bible
“I relieved his shoulder from the burden; his hands were freed from carrying the basket.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I relieved his shoulder from the burden; his hands were freed from carrying the basket.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
I took the burden from his shoulder and I freed his hands from the baskets at the waters of testing.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
He removed his back from burdens: his hands slaved in making the baskets.

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

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

English Revised Version
I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were freed from the basket.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"I removed the burden from his shoulder. His hands were freed from the basket.

Good News Translation
"I took the burdens off your backs; I let you put down your loads of bricks.

International Standard Version
I removed the burden from your shoulder; your hands were freed of the burdensome basket.

JPS Tanakh 1917
I removed his shoulder from the burden; His hands were freed from the basket.

Literal Standard Version
I turned aside his shoulder from the burden, | His hands pass over from the basket.

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

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.

NET Bible
It said: "I removed the burden from his shoulder; his hands were released from holding the basket.

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

New Heart English Bible
"I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.

Webster's Bible Translation
I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.

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

Young's Literal Translation
From the burden his shoulder I turned aside, His hands from the basket pass over.

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Context
Sing for Joy to God, Our Strength
5He ordained it as a testimony for Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt, where I heard an unfamiliar language: 6“I relieved his shoulder of the burden; his hands were freed from the basket. 7You called out in distress, and I rescued you; I answered you from the cloud of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah…

Cross References
Isaiah 9:4
For as in the day of Midian You have shattered the yoke of their burden, the bar across their shoulders, and the rod of their oppressor.

Isaiah 10:27
On that day the burden will be lifted from your shoulders, and the yoke from your neck. The yoke will be broken because your neck will be too large.


Treasury of Scripture

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

I removed

Exodus 1:14
And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

Exodus 6:6
Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:

Isaiah 9:4
For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.

were delivered.

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

Jeremiah 24:2
One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.

Exodus 1:14
And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.

Psalm 68:13
Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.

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Psalm 81
1. An exhortation to a solemn praising of God
4. God challenges that duty by reason of his benefits
8. God, exhorting to obedience, complains of their disobedience, which proves their own hurt.














(6) Pots.--Deriving from a root to boil, and with allusion to potteries, which, probably, together with the brick-kilns, formed the scene of the forced labour of Israel. The LXX. and Vulg. have "slaved in the basket," but the basket, which is represented on Egyptian monuments, is doubtless meant by the burden of the last clause.

Verses 6-16. - The "discourse" is now given. It commences somewhat abruptly, and is, perhaps, itself a fragment, the beginning of which is lost. God reminds Israel of his past favours (vers. 6, 7), exhorts them to faithfulness (vers. 8, 9), promises them blessings (ver. 10), complains of their waywardness (vers. 11, 12), and finally makes a last appeal to them to turn to him, and recover his protection, before it is too late (vers. 13-16). Verse 6. - I removed his shoulder from the burden. In Egypt, burdens were borne upon the shoulder, either simply held upon it with both hands, or distributed between the two shoulders by means of a yoke (see Rawlinson's 'Herodotus,' vol. 2. p. 214). His hands were delivered from the pots; rather, from the basket; i.e. the basket in which the clay was carried before it was made into bricks.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
“I relieved
הֲסִיר֣וֹתִי (hă·sî·rō·w·ṯî)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5493: To turn aside

his shoulder
שִׁכְמ֑וֹ (šiḵ·mōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 7926: The neck, as the place of burdens, the spur of a, hill

of the burden;
מִסֵּ֣בֶל (mis·sê·ḇel)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5447: A load, burden

his hands
כַּ֝פָּ֗יו (kap·pāw)
Noun - fdc | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3709: Hollow or flat of the hand, palm, sole (of the foot), a pan

were freed
תַּעֲבֹֽרְנָה׃ (ta·‘ă·ḇō·rə·nāh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine plural
Strong's 5674: To pass over, through, or by, pass on

from the basket.
מִדּ֥וּד (mid·dūḏ)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1731: A pot, a basket


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