Psalms 40:9-10

40:9 I have told the great assembly ¹  about your justice. ² 

Look! I spare no words! ³ 

O Lord, you know this is true.

40:10 I have not failed to tell about your justice; ⁴ 

I spoke about your reliability and deliverance;

I have not neglected to tell the great assembly about your loyal love and faithfulness. ⁵ 

Psalms 71:8

71:8 I praise you constantly

and speak of your splendor all day long. ⁶ 

Psalms 71:15-19

71:15 I will tell about your justice,

and all day long proclaim your salvation, ⁷ 

though I cannot fathom its full extent. ⁸ 

71:16 I will come and tell about ⁹  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 ¹⁰  your amazing deeds.

71:18 Even when I am old and gray, ¹¹ 

O God, do not abandon me,

until I tell the next generation about your strength,

and those coming after me about your power. ¹² 

71:19 Your justice, O God, extends to the skies above; ¹³ 

you have done great things. ¹⁴ 

O God, who can compare to you? ¹⁵ 

[40:9]  ¹ sn The great assembly is also mentioned in Pss 22:25 and 35:18.

[40:9]  ² 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]  ³ tn Heb “Look! My lips I do not restrain.”

[40:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “your justice I have not hidden in the midst of my heart.”

[40:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “I have not hidden your loyal love and reliability.”

[71:8]  ⁶ tn Heb “my mouth is filled [with] your praise, all the day [with] your splendor.”

[71:15]  ⁷ tn Heb “my mouth declares your vindication, all the day your deliverance.”

[71:15]  ⁸ 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]  ⁹ tn Heb “I will come with.”

[71:17]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and until now I am declaring.”

[71:18]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and even unto old age and gray hair.”

[71:18]  ¹² 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.

[71:19]  ¹³ tn Heb “your justice, O God, [is] unto the height.” The Hebrew term מָרוֹם (marom, “height”) is here a title for the sky/heavens.

[71:19]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “you who have done great things.”

[71:19]  ¹⁵ tn Or “Who is like you?”