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Psalm 81
6: He says, I removed the burden from their shoulders, their hands were set free from the basket. Basket? Carrying what? A different burden?
7. In our distress we called, and He rescued us. 10. I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.
Psalm 88
1. The psalmist still acknowledges God as the one who saves him. He feels alienated.
Psalm 81:6 I wondered what basket meant, but Matthew Henry explained that it referred to the bricks that they carried in baskets. This also can apply to us. The wages of sin is death, and if we're set free from the burden on our shoulders and the basket in our hand, then we are free from all this, the bondage of sin. Our burdens are taken from us and nailed to the cross. Physically and spiritually I look at my hands and find no callouses, and feel my shoulders, and find no bruises.

What a thing to rejoice in.

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