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Psalm 81:7

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81:7In your distress you called out and I rescued you.

I answered you from a dark thundercloud.9

I tested you at the waters of Meribah.10

(Selah)

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Psalm 81:6–7: “I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket. In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah

Footnotes

  1. 9 Heb “I answered you in the hidden place of thunder.” This may allude to God’s self-revelation at Mount Sinai, where he appeared in a dark cloud accompanied by thunder (see Exod 19:16).
  2. 10 The name Meribah means “strife.” Two separate but similar incidents at the place called Meribah are recorded in the Pentateuch (Exod 17:1–7; Num 20:1–13). In both cases the Israelites complained about lack of water and the Lord miraculously provided for them.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

In distress you called, and I delivered you;

I answered you in the secret place of thunder;

I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah

NIVNew International Version (2011)

In your distress you called and I rescued you,

I answered you out of a thundercloud;

I tested you at the waters of Meribah.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

You called out in distress, and I rescued you;

I answered you from the thundercloud.

I tested you at the Waters of Meribah.

Selah

NLTNew Living Translation

You cried to me in trouble, and I saved you;

I answered out of the thundercloud

and tested your faith when there was no water at Meribah.

Interlude

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

In this trouble you called, and I rescued you.

Within the secret place of thunder I answered you;

I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah

KJV 1900King James Version

Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee;

I answered thee in the secret place of thunder:

I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.