Psalm 81:7

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Psalms 81:1-16

This is a psalm for the Feast of Trumpets. In the calendar of the Hebrews this feast prepared the way for the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles. The first day of the seventh month was the feast of Trumpets. The tenth day of the seventh month was Atonement. The fifteenth day of the seventh month was Tabernacles ( Lev 23:1-44 ). The psalm opens with a call to the Feast of Trumpets, and a declaration of its Divine appointment (vv. Psa 81:1-5 ). Then the singer expresses the attitude... read more

Arthur Peake

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 81:7

Thou calledst in trouble; at the Red Sea, Exodus 14:10-12. In the secret place of thunder; from the dark and cloudy pillar, whence I thundered and fought against the Egyptians. See Exodus 13:21; Exodus 14:19,Exodus 14:24. Others refer this to the thunder at Sinai. But at that time they were not in trouble, but in a safe and glorious condition. 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 81:7

Psalms 81:7I answered thee in the secret place of thunder.Answers to prayer often come mysteriouslyGod has a thousand “secret” ways of granting our requests.I. He may do it by a wave of air. A man is the subject of a painful disease, that seems progressing to the utter extinction of his life; for the sake of others depending on him, he implores his Maker to restore him. A fresh breeze from heaven is let into his chamber, it not only sweeps his foul room, but heaves his lungs with a new force,... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 81:7

Psa 81:7 Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah. Ver. 7. Thou calledst in trouble ] Their trouble called, though themselves had been silent. I have seen, I have seen the afflictions of my people, &c., but they cried to the Lord at the Red Sea, Exodus 14:10 ; Exodus 14:15 , and were delivered. I answered thee in the secret place of thunder ] i.e. In the pillar of cloud that stood between... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Psalms 81:7

calledst: Psalms 50:15, Psalms 91:14, Psalms 91:15, Exodus 2:23, Exodus 14:10, Exodus 14:30, Exodus 14:31, Exodus 17:2-Judges : secret: Exodus 14:24, Exodus 19:19, Exodus 20:18-Ecclesiastes : proved: Exodus 17:6, Exodus 17:7, Numbers 20:13, Numbers 20:24, Deuteronomy 33:8 Meribah: or, strife Reciprocal: Exodus 15:25 - proved Exodus 18:8 - how the Lord Exodus 19:20 - the Lord came Deuteronomy 8:2 - prove thee Deuteronomy 13:3 - proveth Psalms 18:11 - secret Psalms 106:32 - angered Ezekiel... read more

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Psalms 81:1-16

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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 81:7

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 81:7

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 81:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Psalms 81:7

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