Psalm 81:5

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 81:1-16

LXXXI. This Ps. is probably composite. A. Psalms 81:1-Numbers : .— A Festal Hymn, specially adapted for the old New Year’ s Day or Feast of Trumpets (p. 104), which was held on the new moon of Tishri, the seventh month, and for the Feast of Tabernacles (pp. 103f.) at the full moon of the same month. The old New Year in the autumn, when the cycle of agricultural work was complete, is to be distinguished from the Babylonian New Year in the spring month of Nisan (see p, 118, Leviticus 23:24 ff.... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 81:5

This he ordained, to wit, the blowing of trumpets. In Joseph; among the posterity of Joseph, to wit, the people of Israel, as is evident both from the foregoing verse, where they are called Israel, and from the following words in this verse, where they are described by their coming out of Egypt, which was common to all the tribes of Israel, who are sometimes called by the name of Joseph, of which see on Psalms 80:1. For a testimony; either, 1. For a law, which is oft called a testimony. Or... read more

Joseph Exell

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 81:5

Psalms 81:5Where I heard a language that I understood not.Ignorance of the language of a communityIt is by no means uncommon for men to be thrown into a community of whose language they are entirely ignorant. Now, ignorance of the language of others is of two kinds, intellectual and moral.I. Intellectual. By this we mean entire unacquaintance with the sounds, construction, and laws of the language. This kind of ignorance reminds us of two things.1. An abnormal condition of human society. It is... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 81:5

Psa 81:5 This 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. Ver. 5. This he ordained in Joseph ] Put for all Israel, as Psalms 80:1 , though the Chaldee understandeth it of Joseph in person, and the next words of his going through the land of Egypt to gather corn in the seven plentiful years, and that at his first coming into Egypt he understood not their language. When I heard a language ] Idolatrous... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Psalms 81:5

in Joseph: Psalms 77:15, Psalms 80:1, Psalms 80:2, Amos 6:6 for a: Psalms 78:6, Exodus 13:8, Exodus 13:9, Exodus 13:14-Nehemiah :, Deuteronomy 4:45, Ezekiel 20:20 through: or, against, Exodus 12:12, Exodus 12:27, Exodus 12:29 where: Psalms 114:1, Deuteronomy 28:49, Isaiah 28:11, Jeremiah 5:15, 1 Corinthians 14:21, 1 Corinthians 14:22 Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 5:6 - brought Psalms 78:5 - For he Ezekiel 3:5 - of a strange speech and of an hard language read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Psalms 81:5

This 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.Joseph — Among the people of Israel.Testimony — For a witness of that glorious deliverance.He — God.Went — As a captain at the head of his people.Egypt — To execute his judgments upon that land.I — My progenitors, for all the successive generations of Israel make one body, and are sometimes spoken of as one person.A language — The Egyptian language, which at... read more

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 81:1-16

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 81:5

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

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Psalms 81:1-16

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

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 81:1-16

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 81:5

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 81:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Psalms 81:5

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Psalms 81:5

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