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Psalm 66:16-20
New English Translation
Psalm 66:16-20
New English Translation
16 Come! Listen, all you who are loyal to God.[a]
I will declare what he has done for me.
17 I cried out to him for help[b]
and praised him with my tongue.[c]
18 If I had harbored sin in my heart,[d]
the Lord would not have listened.
19 However, God heard;
he listened to my prayer.
20 God deserves praise,[e]
for[f] he did not reject my prayer
or abandon his love for me.[g]
Footnotes
- Psalm 66:16 tn Heb “all of the fearers of God.”
- Psalm 66:17 tn Heb “to him [with] my mouth I called.”
- Psalm 66:17 tn Heb “and he was extolled under my tongue.” The form רוֹמַם (romam) appears to be a Polal (passive) participle from רוּם (rum, “be exalted”), but many prefer to read רוֹמָם, “high praise [was under my tongue]” (cf. NEB). See BDB 928 s.v. רוֹמָם.
- Psalm 66:18 tn Heb “sin if I had seen in my heart.”
- Psalm 66:20 tn Heb “blessed [be] God.”
- Psalm 66:20 tn Or “who.” In a blessing formula after בָּרוּךְ (barukh, “blessed be”) the form אֲשֶׁר (ʾasher), whether taken as a relative pronoun or causal particle, introduces the basis for the blessing/praise.
- Psalm 66:20 tn Heb “did not turn aside my prayer, or his loyal love from with me.”
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