Psalms 81:4

4 This is the law for Israel; it is the command of the God of Jacob.

Psalms 81:4 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 81:4

For this was a statute for Israel
It was not a piece of will worship, or device of the children of Israel, but was of divine institution; that the passover should be kept at the time it was; and that the trumpets should be blown on the new moon, or first of Tisri; and that the feast of tabernacles should be kept on the fifteenth of the same month:

and a law of the God of Jacob;
and therefore to be observed by Jacob's posterity: the law for the one is in ( Exodus 12:18 Exodus 12:19 ) and for the other is in ( Leviticus 23:24 Leviticus 23:34 ) and so all the ordinances of Christ, and of the Gospel dispensation, are to be regarded on the same account, because they are the statutes and appointments of God; and the feast of tabernacles is particularly put for them all, ( Zechariah 14:16 ) .

Psalms 81:4 In-Context

2 Begin the music. Play the tambourines. Play pleasant music on the harps and lyres.

3 Blow the trumpet at the time of the New Moon, when the moon is full, when our feast begins.

4 This is the law for Israel; it is the command of the God of Jacob.

5 He gave this rule to the people of Joseph when they went out of the land of Egypt. I heard a language I did not know, saying:

6 "I took the load off their shoulders; I let them put down their baskets.