Isaiah 21:10

21:10 O my downtrodden people, crushed like stalks on the threshing floor, ¹ 

what I have heard

from the Lord who commands armies,

the God of Israel,

I have reported to you.

Isaiah 43:8-10

The Lord Declares His Sovereignty

43:8 Bring out the people who are blind, even though they have eyes,

those who are deaf, even though they have ears!

43:9 All nations gather together,

the peoples assemble.

Who among them announced this?

Who predicted earlier events for us? ² 

Let them produce their witnesses to testify they were right;

let them listen and affirm, ‘It is true.’

43:10 You are my witnesses,” says the Lord,

“my servant whom I have chosen,

so that you may consider ³  and believe in me,

and understand that I am he.

No god was formed before me,

and none will outlive me. ⁴ 

Psalms 40:9-10

40:9 I have told the great assembly ⁵  about your justice. ⁶ 

Look! I spare no words! ⁷ 

O Lord, you know this is true.

40:10 I have not failed to tell about your justice; ⁸ 

I spoke about your reliability and deliverance;

I have not neglected to tell the great assembly about your loyal love and faithfulness. ⁹ 

Psalms 71:15-18

71:15 I will tell about your justice,

and all day long proclaim your salvation, ¹⁰ 

though I cannot fathom its full extent. ¹¹ 

71:16 I will come and tell about ¹²  the mighty acts of the sovereign Lord.

I will proclaim your justice – yours alone.

71:17 O God, you have taught me since I was young,

and I am still declaring ¹³  your amazing deeds.

71:18 Even when I am old and gray, ¹⁴ 

O God, do not abandon me,

until I tell the next generation about your strength,

and those coming after me about your power. ¹⁵ 

Psalms 78:3-6

78:3 What we have heard and learned ¹⁶  –

that which our ancestors ¹⁷  have told us –

78:4 we will not hide from their ¹⁸  descendants.

We will tell the next generation

about the Lord’s praiseworthy acts, ¹⁹ 

about his strength and the amazing things he has done.

78:5 He established a rule ²⁰  in Jacob;

he set up a law in Israel.

He commanded our ancestors

to make his deeds known to their descendants, ²¹ 

78:6 so that the next generation, children yet to be born,

might know about them.

They will grow up and tell their descendants about them. ²² 

Psalms 119:13

119:13 With my lips I proclaim

all the regulations you have revealed. ²³ 

Psalms 145:4-5

145:4 One generation will praise your deeds to another,

and tell about your mighty acts! ²⁴ 

145:5 I will focus on your honor and majestic splendor,

and your amazing deeds! ²⁵ 

Jeremiah 50:2

50:2 “Announce ²⁶  the news among the nations! Proclaim it!

Signal for people to pay attention! ²⁷ 

Declare the news! Do not hide it! Say:

‘Babylon will be captured.

Bel ²⁸  will be put to shame.

Marduk will be dismayed.

Babylon’s idols will be put to shame.

Her disgusting images ²⁹  will be dismayed. ³⁰ 

Matthew 10:27

10:27 What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light, and what is whispered in your ear, ³¹  proclaim from the housetops. ³² 

Acts 1:8

1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest parts ³³  of the earth.”

[21:10]  ¹ tn Heb “My trampled one, and the son of the threshing floor.”

[43:9]  ² tn Heb “and the former things was causing us to hear?”

[43:10]  ³ tn Or “know” (KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV).

[43:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “and after me, there will not be”; NASB “there will be none after Me.”

[40:9]  ⁵ sn The great assembly is also mentioned in Pss 22:25 and 35:18.

[40:9]  ⁶ 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.

[40:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “Look! My lips I do not restrain.”

[40:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “your justice I have not hidden in the midst of my heart.”

[40:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “I have not hidden your loyal love and reliability.”

[71:15]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “my mouth declares your vindication, all the day your deliverance.”

[71:15]  ¹¹ tn Heb “though I do not know [the] numbers,” that is, the tally of God’s just and saving acts. HALOT 768 s.v. סְפֹרוֹת understands the plural noun to mean “the art of writing.”

[71:16]  ¹² tn Heb “I will come with.”

[71:17]  ¹³ tn Heb “and until now I am declaring.”

[71:18]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “and even unto old age and gray hair.”

[71:18]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “until I declare your arm to a generation, to everyone who comes your power.” God’s “arm” here is an anthropomorphism that symbolizes his great strength.

[78:3]  ¹⁶ tn Or “known.”

[78:3]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 5, 8, 12, 57).

[78:4]  ¹⁸ tn The pronominal suffix refers back to the “fathers” (“our ancestors,” v. 3).

[78:4]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “to a following generation telling the praises of the Lord.” “Praises” stand by metonymy for the mighty acts that prompt worship. Cf. Ps 9:14.

[78:5]  ²⁰ tn The Hebrew noun עֵדוּת (’edut) refers here to God’s command that the older generation teach their children about God’s mighty deeds in the nation’s history (see Exod 10:2; Deut 4:9; 6:20-25).

[78:5]  ²¹ tn Heb “which he commanded our fathers to make them known to their sons.” The plural suffix “them” probably refers back to the Lord’s mighty deeds (see vv. 3-4).

[78:6]  ²² tn Heb “in order that they might know, a following generation, sons [who] will be born, they will arise and will tell to their sons.”

[119:13]  ²³ tn Heb “of your mouth.”

[145:4]  ²⁴ tn The prefixed verbal forms in v. 4 are understood as imperfects, indicating how the psalmist expects his audience to respond to his praise. Another option is to take the forms as jussives, indicating the psalmist’s wish, “may one generation praise…and tell about.”

[145:5]  ²⁵ tn Heb “the splendor of the glory of your majesty, and the matters of your amazing deeds I will ponder.”

[50:2]  ²⁶ tn The verbs are masculine plural. Jeremiah is calling on other unnamed messengers to spread the news.

[50:2]  ²⁷ tn Heb “Raise a signal flag.”

[50:2]  ²⁸ sn Bel was originally the name or title applied to the Sumerian storm god. During the height of Babylon’s power it became a title that was applied to Marduk who was Babylon’s chief deity. As a title it means “Lord.” Here it is a poetical parallel reference to Marduk mentioned in the next line.

[50:2]  ²⁹ tn The Hebrew word used here (גִּלּוּלִים, gillulim) is always used as a disdainful reference to idols. It is generally thought to have originally referred to “dung pellets” (cf. KBL 183 s.v. גִלּוּלִים). It is only one of several terms used in this way, such as “worthless things” (אַלִילִים, ’alilim), “vanities,” or “empty winds” (הֲבָלִים, havalim).

[50:2]  ³⁰ tn The verbs here are all in the tense that views the actions as though they were already done (the Hebrew prophetic perfect). The verbs in the next verse are a mixture of prophetic perfects and imperfects which announce future actions.

[10:27]  ³¹ tn Grk “what you hear in the ear,” an idiom.

[10:27]  ³² tn The expression “proclaim from the housetops” is an idiom for proclaiming something publicly (L&N 7.51). Roofs of many first century Jewish houses in Judea and Galilee were flat and had access either from outside or from within the house. Something shouted from atop a house would be heard by everyone in the street below.

[1:8]  ³³ tn Or “to the ends.”