Psalms 40:10

40:10 I have not failed to tell about your justice; ¹ 

I spoke about your reliability and deliverance;

I have not neglected to tell the great assembly about your loyal love and faithfulness. ² 

Psalms 71:15

71:15 I will tell about your justice,

and all day long proclaim your salvation, ³ 

though I cannot fathom its full extent. ⁴ 

Isaiah 51:6-8

51:6 Look up at the sky!

Look at the earth below!

For the sky will dissipate ⁵  like smoke,

and the earth will wear out like clothes;

its residents will die like gnats.

But the deliverance I give ⁶  is permanent;

the vindication I provide ⁷  will not disappear. ⁸ 

51:7 Listen to me, you who know what is right,

you people who are aware of my law! ⁹ 

Don’t be afraid of the insults of men;

don’t be discouraged because of their abuse!

51:8 For a moth will eat away at them like clothes;

a clothes moth will devour them like wool.

But the vindication I provide ¹⁰  will be permanent;

the deliverance I give will last.”

[40:10]  ¹ tn Heb “your justice I have not hidden in the midst of my heart.”

[40:10]  ² tn Heb “I have not hidden your loyal love and reliability.”

[71:15]  ³ tn Heb “my mouth declares your vindication, all the day your deliverance.”

[71:15]  ⁴ 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.”

[51:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “will be torn in pieces.” The perfect indicates the certitude of the event, from the Lord’s rhetorical perspective.

[51:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “my deliverance.” The same Hebrew word can also be translated “salvation” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); cf. CEV “victory.”

[51:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “my righteousness [or “vindication”].”

[51:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “will not be shattered [or “dismayed”].”

[51:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “people (who have) my law in their heart.”

[51:8]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “my vindication”; many English versions “my righteousness”; NRSV, TEV “my deliverance”; CEV “my victory.”