Psalm 81:5 Parallel Translations

These are the instructions God set in place for Joseph when Joseph rose to power over Egypt. I heard a message I did not understand:(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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.

ASV:

He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, When he went out over the land of Egypt, Where I heard a language that I knew not.

BBE:

He gave it to Joseph as a witness, when he went out over the land of Egypt; then the words of a strange tongue were sounding in my ears.

DBY:

He ordained it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went forth over the land of Egypt, where I heard a language that I knew not.

ERV:

He appointed it in Joseph for testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I knew not.

JPS:

He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when He went forth against the land of Egypt. The speech of one that I knew not did I hear:

WBS:

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.

WEB:

He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn't know.

YLT:

A testimony on Joseph He hath placed it, In his going forth over the land of Egypt. A lip, I have not known -- I hear.

Psalm 81:5 Cross References

XREF:

Exodus 11:4 Moses said, "Thus says the LORD, 'About midnight I am going out into the midst of Egypt,

Deuteronomy 28:49 "The LORD will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle swoops down, a nation whose language you shall not understand,

Psalm 114:1 When Israel went forth from Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange language,

Jeremiah 5:15 "Behold, I am bringing a nation against you from afar, O house of Israel," declares the LORD. "It is an enduring nation, It is an ancient nation, A nation whose language you do not know, Nor can you understand what they say. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

81:5 This he ordained in {d} Joseph [for] a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: [where] I heard a language [that] {e} I understood not.
(d) That is, in Israel for Joseph's family was counted the chief while before, Judah was preferred.
(e) God speaks in the person of the people because he was their leader.

WES:

81:5 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 first was unknown to the Israelites, Gen 42:13, and probably continued so for some considerable time, because they were much separated both in place and conversation from the Egyptians.

MHC:

81:1-7 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 distress of conscience, we are led to cry for deliverance, the Lord answers our prayers, and sets us at liberty. Convictions of sin, and trials by affliction, prove his regard to his people. If the Jews, on their solemn feast-days, were thus to call to mind their redemption out of Egypt, much more ought we, on the Christian sabbath, to call to mind a more glorious redemption, wrought out for us by our Lord Jesus Christ, from worse bondage.

CONC:

Appointed Decree Didn't Ears Egypt Established Forth Joseph Language Lip Ordained Placed Sounding Speech Statute Strange Testimony Throughout Tongue Understand Understood Voice Witness

Appointed Decree Ears Egypt Established Forth Hear Heard Joseph Language Ordained Placed Sounding Speech Statute Strange Testimony Throughout Tongue Understand Understood Voice Witness Words

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