Psalms 81:5. This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
God understands his people’s language, and in very truth he understands everything; but here he uses a Hebraic to show that he did not care for the speech of the Egyptians: "I heard a language that I understood not." This sentence is like that other expression, "I never knew you." Of course, the Lord knows everyone as a matter of acquaintance, but not as a matter of affection. He cared not for the Egyptians; they were aliens to him; he went out against the land of Egypt. It was for Joseph, and for his own people who were under the leadership of Joseph in that heathen land, that he ordained this statute that they should praise the name of Jehovah.
Psalms 81:5. This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
God understands his people’s language, and in very truth he understands everything; but here he uses a Hebraic to show that he did not care for the speech of the Egyptians: "I heard a language that I understood not." This sentence is like that other expression, "I never knew you." Of course, the Lord knows everyone as a matter of acquaintance, but not as a matter of affection. He cared not for the Egyptians; they were aliens to him; he went out against the land of Egypt. It was for Joseph, and for his own people who were under the leadership of Joseph in that heathen land, that he ordained this statute that they should praise the name of Jehovah.