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Psalm 40:9-10
New English Translation
Psalm 40:9-10
New English Translation
9 I have told the great assembly[a] about your justice.[b]
Look, I spare no words.[c]
O Lord, you know this is true.
10 I have not failed to tell about your justice;[d]
I spoke about your reliability and deliverance.
I have not neglected to tell the great assembly about your loyal love and faithfulness.[e]
Footnotes
- Psalm 40:9 sn The great assembly is also mentioned in Pss 22:25 and 35:18.
- Psalm 40:9 tn Heb “I proclaim justice in the great assembly.” Though “justice” appears without a pronoun here, the Lord’s just acts are in view (see v. 10). His “justice” (צֶדֶק, tsedeq) is here the deliverance that originates in his justice; he protects and vindicates the one whose cause is just.
- Psalm 40:9 tn Heb “Look! My lips I do not restrain.”
- Psalm 40:10 tn Heb “your justice I have not hidden in the midst of my heart.”
- Psalm 40:10 tn Heb “I have not hidden your loyal love and reliability.”
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