Mazmur 71:15-16

71:15 I will tell about your justice,

and all day long proclaim your salvation, ¹ 

though I cannot fathom its full extent. ² 

71:16 I will come and tell about ³  the mighty acts of the sovereign Lord.

I will proclaim your justice – yours alone.

Mazmur 71:19

71:19 Your justice, O God, extends to the skies above; ⁴ 

you have done great things. ⁵ 

O God, who can compare to you? ⁶ 

[71:15]  ¹ tn Heb “my mouth declares your vindication, all the day your deliverance.”

[71:15]  ² 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]  ³ tn Heb “I will come with.”

[71:19]  ⁴ 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]  sn Extends to the skies above. Similar statements are made in Pss 36:5 and 57:10.

[71:19]  ⁵ tn Heb “you who have done great things.”

[71:19]  ⁶ tn Or “Who is like you?”