Psalms 81:6

“I removed his shoulder from the burden, etc.] 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” f1173; 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 <196813>Psalm 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…”

“I removed his shoulder from the burden - The burden which the people of Israel were called to hear in Egypt. The reference is undoubtedly to their burdens in making bricks, and conveying them to the place where they were to be used; and perhaps also to the fact that they were required to carry stone in building houses and towns for the Egyptians. Compare Exodus 1:11-14; Exodus 5:4-17. The meaning is, that he had saved them from these burdens, to wit, by delivering them from their hard bondage. The speaker here evidently is God. In the previous verse it is the people. Such a change of person is not uncommon in the Scriptures. His hands were delivered from the pots - Margin, as in Hebrew,…”

“Pots - This word denotes all those vessels wherein they carried water, straw, lime, or bricks. Psalms 81:7”

“81:6-7 The Lord heard Israel’s cry in Egypt and rescued them from oppressive slavery.”

“I removed: Exo 1:14, Exo 6:6; Isa 9:4, Isa 10:27; Mat 11:29 were delivered: Heb. passed away from the pots: Or rather, as dood also signifies (see Kg2 10:7; Jer 24:2,}} the basket, so LXX, and Symmachus, κοφινοϚ, and Vulgate and Jerome, cophino; and Diodati, le sue mani si non dipartite dalle corbe, "his hands were removed from the baskets," i.e., says he in a note, de portar la terra da far mattoni, "from carrying earth to make bricks," Exo 1:14. Psa 68:13 Psalms 81:7”

“It is a gentle but profoundly earnest festival discourse which God the Redeemer addresses to His redeemed people. It begins, as one would expect in a Passover speech, with a reference to the סבלות of Egypt ( Exo 1:11-14; Exo 5:4; Exo 6:6.), and to the duwd, the task-basket for the transport of the clay and of the bricks ( Exo 1:14; Exo 5:7.). (Note: In the Papyrus Leydensis i. 346 the Israelites are called the "Aperiu (עברים), who dragged along the stones for the great watch-tower of the city of Rameses," and in the Pap. Leyd. i. 349, according to Lauth, the "Aperiu, who dragged along the stones for the storehouse of the city of Rameses.") Out of such distress did He free the poor people who…”