Psalm 81:7

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Psalms 81:1-16

Psalms 81:1-16THE 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 which is the true way of keeping the feast. There has been much discussion as to which feast is in the psalmist’s mind. That of Tabernacles has been widely accepted as intended, chiefly on the ground that the first day of the month in which it occurred was celebrated by the blowing of trumpets, as... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Psalms 81:1-16

Psalms 81:0 Hope Revived: His Gracious Return to Israel 1. The blowing of the trumpet (Psalms 81:1-5 ) 2. His loving call to His people (Psalms 81:6-12 ) 3. Gracious results promised (Psalms 81:13-16 ) Hope has revived and singing is commanded. What interests us most is the call to blow the trumpet in the new moon. The blowing of the trumpet, in the feast of trumpets (Leviticus 23:1-44 ), marks the beginning of Israel’s New Year. Dispensationally it stands for the regathering of Israel... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Psalms 81:7

81:7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I {g} answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.(g) By a strange and wonderful fashion. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Psalms 81:1-16

The first psalm in this lesson suggests Psalms 74:0 on which we did not dwell, but both of which depict the desolations of Judah by the Babylonians (compare Jeremiah 52:12-14 ). On this supposition their date would be that of the captivity, and their author a later Asaph than the Asaph mentioned in David’s time. Psalms 80:0 Has captivity features also. Some would say it relates to the ten tribes, as the preceding psalm does to Judah. The next several psalms are much alike in this respect and... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 81:7

These are sweet views of God's former dealings with his people; and a reference to Israel's history will mark out the several periods here spoken of. But, Reader! do not you and I also see our own history, and Jesus interposing for our salvation? read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Psalms 81:7

Men. Hebrew Adam, or "like a man" (Montanus; Haydock) of the meanest rank. --- Princes. Among men, (Calmet) or like Lucifer, the first of the rebel angels. (Eusebius) (St. Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho) --- Most tyrants come to a miserable end. (Menochius) --- At death, judges themselves are brought to the bar, and their case is then more terrible, as the mighty in guilt shall suffer more, Wisdom vi. (Worthington) --- They are forced to taste od death; while Jesus Christ was master of... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 81:1-7

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 in remembrance by public solemnities. To make a deliverance appear more gracious, more glorious, it is good to observe all that makes the trouble we are delivered from appear more grievous. We ought never to forget the base and ruinous drudgery to which Satan, our oppressor, brought us. But when, in... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Psalms 81:1-16

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 psalm of Asaph, an antiphonal, festal hymn, probably for the celebration of the Passover, God Himself answering the praise of His people by reminding them of their obligations and picturing to them the happy consequences of obedience and loyalty to Him. v. 1. Sing aloud unto God, our Strength,... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Psalms 81:1-16

Psalms 81:0To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph2 Sing aloud unto God our strength:Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.3 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel,The pleasant harp with the psaltery.4 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon,In the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.5 For this was a statute for Israel,And a law of the God of Jacob.6 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony,When he went out through the land of Egypt:Where I heard a... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Psalms 81:1-7

Sing unto God, the Deliverer Psalms 81:1-7 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 81:5-7 ; Psalms 81:10 . See also 2 Chronicles 30:21 . Let us remember to celebrate the redemption of the Cross, where our Paschal Lamb was sacrificed. We must celebrate, here and hereafter, the love that rescued us from the burden and the basket, at Sinai and Meribah. Baskets have been found in the... read more