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A Call to Remember
Scholars debate whether this verse refers to the Passover or the Feast of Tabernacles due to ambiguity in the Hebrew terms for “new moon” and “full moon.” However, all agree the point is that God ordained specific, joyous festivals, marked by trumpet blasts, for Israel to remember His mighty acts of deliverance.
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Albert Barnes
On Psalms 81:3
18th Century
Theologian
Blow up the trumpet – The word translated "blow" means to make a clangor or noise as on a trumpet. The trumpet was, like the timbrel, the ha…
Charles Ellicott
On Psalms 81:3
19th Century
Bishop
Trumpet.—Hebrew, shôphar. (Psalms 47:5). In connection with this festival psalm, the mention of the shôph…
Charles Spurgeon
On Psalm 81:2–6
19th Century
Preacher
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on…
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John Gill
On Psalms 81:3
17th Century
Pastor
Blow up the trumpet in the new moon
Either in every new moon, or first day of the month, which was religiously obser…
Matthew Henry
On Psalms 81:1–7
17th Century
Minister
All the worship we can render to the Lord is beneath his excellences and our obligations to him, especially in our redemption from sin and wrath. W…