Psalms 81:5

3 Blow the trumpet at the time of the New Moon,
At the full moon, on our solemn feast day.

4 For ^athis is a statute for Israel,
A law of the God of Jacob.

5 This He established in Joseph as a testimony,
When He went throughout the land of Egypt,
^aWhere I heard a language I did not understand.

6 “I removed his shoulder from the burden;
His hands were freed from the baskets.

7 ^aYou called in trouble, and I delivered you;
^bI answered you in the secret place of thunder;
I ^ctested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah

8 “Hear,^a O My people, and I will admonish you!
O Israel, if you will listen to Me!

9 There shall be no ^aforeign god among you;
Nor shall you worship any foreign god.

10 ^aI am the Lord your God,
Who brought you out of the land of Egypt;
^bOpen your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

11 “But My people would not heed My voice,
And Israel would have ^anone of Me.

12 ^aSo I gave them over to¹ their own stubborn heart,
To walk in their own counsels.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Psalms 81:5

I heard a language I understood not - This passage is difficult. Who heard? And what was heard? All the Versions, except the Chaldee, read the pronoun in the third person, instead of the first. "He heard a language that he understood not." And to the Versions Kennicott reforms the text, sephath lo yadah yisma ; "a language which he did not understand he heard." But what was that language? Some say the Egyptian; others, who take Joseph to signify the children of Israel in general, say it was the declaration of God by Moses, that Jehovah was the true God, that he would deliver their shoulder from their burdens, and their hands from the pots - the moulds and furnaces in which they formed and baked their brick.

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