--- title: "Psalms 81 - Study King James Bible with clarkes commentary" description: "Read Psalms 81 with clarkes commentary commentary. 1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. 2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the ps" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/clarkes-commentary/psalms/81" --- [ Read](/kjv/psalms/81)[ Commentary](/study/psalms/81)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/psalms/81) Audio 1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.* 2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. 3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. 4 For this *was* a statute for Israel, *and* a law of the God of Jacob. 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.* 6 I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.* 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.* 8 Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me; 9 There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god. 10 I *am* the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. 11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. 12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: *and* they walked in their own counsels.* 13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, *and* Israel had walked in my ways! 14 I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries. 15 The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.* 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.* [Psalms 80](/study/psalms/80) [Psalms 82](/study/psalms/82) ## Commentary To verse 1 The *title* is the same as to [Psalms 8:1](/kjv/psalms/8/1), which see. There are various opinions concerning the *occasion* and *time* of this Psalm: but it is pretty generally agreed that it was either written *for* or used at the celebration of the Feast of Trumpets, (see on [Leviticus 23:24](/kjv/leviticus/23/24),) which was held on the first day of the month *Tisri*, which was the beginning of the Jewish year; and on that day it is still used in the Jewish worship. According to Jewish tradition, credited by many learned Christians, the world was created in *Tisri*, which answers to our *September*. The Psalm may have been used in celebrating the Feast of Trumpets on the first day of Tisri, the Feast of Tabernacles on the *fifteenth* of the same month, the *creation* of the world, the Feasts of the New Moons, and the deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt; to all which circumstances it appears to refer. Verse [Psalms 81:1](/kjv/psalms/81/1). ***Sing aloud unto God our strength*** — There is much *meaning* here: as God is our *strength*, let that strength be devoted to his service; therefore, sing *aloud*! 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