Psalms 81:4

"Blow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day."

Key Reflection

In ancient Israel, the blowing of trumpets was a crucial ritual associated with major religious festivals and new moons. Psalms 81:4 instructs the people to sound the trumpet at these times, emphasizing the importance of both the beginning (new moon) and completion (full moon) of lunar cycles, as well as during significant feast days, reinforcing communal worship and remembrance of God's covenant.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

For this was a statute for Israel ... -SeeExodus 12:3. That is, it was a law for the whole Jewish people, for all who had the name Israel, for all the descendants of Jacob. The word was is not in the original, as if this had been an old commandment which might now be obsolete, but the idea is one of perpetuity: it is a perpetual law for the Hebrew people. A law of the God of Jacob -Hebrew, a judgment; or, right. The idea is, that it was what was due to God; what was his right. It was a solemn claim that he should be thus acknowledged.

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