Psalms 81:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 81

⁵This 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.

Psalms 81:5 —

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Cross-References

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Psalms 114:1
When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange language;
Deuteronomy 28:49
The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
Jeremiah 5:15
Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.
1 Corinthians 14:21-22
In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord. …
Exodus 13:8-9
And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is done because of that which the LORD did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt. …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-7)

When the people of God were gathered together in the solemn day, the day of the feast of the Lord, they must be told that they had business to do, for we do not go to church to sleep nor to be idle; no, there is that which the duty of every day requires, work of the day, which is to be done in its day. And here, I. The worshippers of God are excited to their work, and are taught, by singing this p…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5. a testimony--The feasts, especially the passover, attested God’s relation to His people. Joseph--for Israel (Psa 80:1). went out through--or, “over,” that is, Israel in the exodus. I heard--change of person. The writer speaks for the nation. language--literally, “lip” (Psa 14:1). An aggravation or element of their distress that their oppressors were foreigners (De 28:49).