I removed his shoulder from the burden,.... These are the words of God, declaring how he had delivered the Israelites from the oppression and cruelty of the Egyptians; who made their lives bitter in hard bondage, and obliged them to carry heavy loads of bricks upon their shoulders:his hands were delivered from the pots, or "baskets" ; into which the bricks were put when made, and carried on their shoulders; or from making of pots, as Kimchi, who thinks the Israelites were employed in making pots of clay as well as bricks; see Ps 68:13, the Targum is,"his hands withdrew themselves from casting clay into the pots:''the whole is typical of the saints' deliverance by Christ from the bondage of sin, Satan, and the law.
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Psalms 81:6
Psalms 81:6
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