Psalm 81:16

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Psalms 81:1-16

INTRODUCTIONSuperscription.—“To the chief Musician upon Gittith.” Gittith is explained in several ways. One interpretation is that it was a musical instrument invented in Gath, or common among the Gittites. Or it may have been the name of a tune to which the Psalm is to be sung, and which originated from Gath. Others have derived the word from נַּתּ = a wine press, and concluded that it denotes an instrument which was used by those accustomed to tread the wine-vat, and intended to accompany the... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Psalms 81:1-16

Let's turn to Psalms 81:1-16 .On the first day of the seventh month in the Jewish calendar, which, because their calendar begins, the religious calendar begins the first of April, it usually coincides somewhere around the first of October on our calendar. There is a blowing of the trumpets. It's called the Feast of the Trumpets to announce the most holy month of the year, the seventh month. And so the first day of the seventh month the Feast of Trumpets, the blowing of the trumpets to... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 81:1-16

This psalm was composed for the festival of tabernacles, when the people celebrated the deliverance from Egypt. It was a statute in Israel on the first day of the Hebrew month of Tisri, or the new month, for the full band of music to be heard in all places. Numbers 10:10; Numbers 29:1. It might be sung after the storm in the preseding psalm had subsided. Psalms 81:5 . A testimony. Joseph is named here as leading the Hebrews into Egypt, where they heard a language which they could not... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 81:1-16

Psalms 81:1-16Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.A revelation of three great subjectsI. True worship (verses1-5)1. True worship is the highest happiness, which consists in--(1) Right activity. Worthy of our nature. In harmony with all our faculties.(2) The highest love.(3) The sublimest hope.2. True worship is a Divine ordinance, binding on all moral intelligences.(1) Right in itself.(2) Essential to their happiness.II. Divine kindness (Psalms 81:6-10).... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 81:16

Psalms 81:16With honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.A little but wise teacherYou know it was said of the Holy Land, long before God led His people into it, that it was “a land flowing with milk and honey.” Such it was and still is. That bees swarmed abundantly in the East many years ago, we may infer from the honey found in the dried remains of the lion which was killed by Samson. And in these modern days the wandering Arabs who live in tents, especially those who dwell in the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 81:16

Psa 81:16 He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee. Ver. 16. With the finest of the wheat ] Heb. With the fat or marrow of wheat, with the choicest of picked nourishment. And with honey, &c. ] Hyperbole incomparabilis felicitatis et foecunditatis. See Deuteronomy 32:13 , shadowing out the sweetness of the word and sacraments. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Psalms 81:16

fed: Psalms 147:14, Deuteronomy 32:13, Deuteronomy 32:14, Joel 2:24 finest of the wheat: Heb. fat of wheat honey: Judges 14:8, Judges 14:9, Judges 14:18, 1 Samuel 14:25, 1 Samuel 14:26, Job 29:6 Reciprocal: Genesis 45:18 - the fat Deuteronomy 8:8 - wheat Job 20:17 - of honey Ezekiel 16:13 - thou didst Matthew 7:8 - General John 6:9 - barley read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Psalms 81:16

He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.Honey — With all pleasant and precious fruits. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 81:16

16. He should have fed them The excellent quality and abundant supply of food here stand generically for all needful things. The expression, honey out of the rock, is not to be taken literally, as in 1 Samuel 14:27, but figuratively, as denoting the richest supplies from the most sterile and unpropitious sources. The fundamental passage is Deuteronomy 32:13, where both “honey” and “oil” are made to flow from the rock, the “oil,” probably referring to the olive tree. See note on Psalms... read more