For this is a statute for Israel, and a Law of the God of Jacob.

He set this in [a]Joseph for a testimony, when he came out of the land of Egypt, where I heard a language, that [b]I understood not.

I have withdrawn his shoulder from the burden, and his hands have left the [c]pots.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 81:5 That is, in Israel: for Joseph’s family was counted the chief before that Judah was preferred.
  2. Psalm 81:5 God speaketh in the person of the people because he was their leader.
  3. Psalm 81:6 If they were never able to give sufficient thanks to God for this deliverance from corporal bondage, how much more are we indebted to him for our spiritual deliverance from the tyranny of Satan and sin?

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