Psalms 81:7

“Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee, etc.] That is, when Israel were in trouble in Egypt, as the Targum adds, and they cried unto the Lord in their distress, he heard them, and answered them, and sent them a deliverer, and brought them out of all their troubles, (<020307>Exodus 3:7-10). I answered thee in the secret place of thunder; by bringing the plague of thunder and lightnings upon the Egyptians, when the Israelites were hidden from them; a sense given by some, as Kimchi observes: or rather this was done when the Lord looked out of the pillar of cloud at the Red sea upon the Egyptian host, and troubled them; at which time the voice of his thunder was heard in heaven,…”

“Thou calledst in trouble - The people of Israel. Exodus 2:23; Exodus 3:9; Exodus 14:10. And I delivered thee - I brought the people out of Egypt. I answered thee in the secret place of thunder - That is, in the lonely, retired, solemn place where the thunder rolled; the solitudes where there was no voice but the voice of thunder, and where that seemed to come from the deep recesses of the mountain gorges. The allusion is doubtless to Sinai. Compare Exodus 19:17-19. The meaning is, that he gave a response - a real reply - to their prayer - amid the solemn scenes of Sinai, when he gave them his law; when he recognized them as his people; when he entered into covenant with them. I proved thee -…”

“Calledst - At the Red Sea. Secret place - From the dark and cloudy pillar, whence I thundered against the Egyptians. Psalms 81:8”

“calledst: Psa 50:15, Psa 91:14, Psa 91:15; Exo 2:23, Exo 14:10, Exo 14:30, Exo 14:31, Exo 17:2-7 secret: Exo 14:24, Exo 19:19, Exo 20:18-21 proved: Exo 17:6, Exo 17:7; Num 20:13, Num 20:24; Deu 33:8 Meribah: or, strife Psalms 81:8”