Mazmur 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 

Mazmur 66:3-4

66:3 Say to God:

“How awesome are your deeds!

Because of your great power your enemies cower in fear ⁶  before you.

66:4 All the earth worships ⁷  you

and sings praises to you!

They sing praises to your name!” (Selah)

Mazmur 71:17-19

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

and I am still declaring ⁸  your amazing deeds.

71:18 Even when I am old and gray, ⁹ 

O God, do not abandon me,

until I tell the next generation about your strength,

and those coming after me about your power. ¹⁰ 

71:19 Your justice, O God, extends to the skies above; ¹¹ 

you have done great things. ¹² 

O God, who can compare to you? ¹³ 

Mazmur 71:24

71:24 All day long my tongue will also tell about your justice,

for those who want to harm me ¹⁴  will be embarrassed and ashamed. ¹⁵ 

Mazmur 96:3

96:3 Tell the nations about his splendor!

Tell ¹⁶  all the nations about his amazing deeds!

Mazmur 104:1-2

Psalm 104 ¹⁷ 

104:1 Praise the Lord, O my soul!

O Lord my God, you are magnificent. ¹⁸ 

You are robed in splendor and majesty.

104:2 He covers himself with light as if it were a garment.

He stretches out the skies like a tent curtain,

Mazmur 105:2

105:2 Sing to him!

Make music to him!

Tell about all his miraculous deeds!

Yesaya 12:4

12:4 At that time ¹⁹  you will say:

“Praise the Lord!

Ask him for help! ²⁰ 

Publicize his mighty acts among the nations!

Make it known that he is unique! ²¹ 

Daniel 4:1-3

4:1 (3:31) ²²  “King Nebuchadnezzar, to all peoples, nations, and language groups that live in all the land: Peace and prosperity! ²³  4:2 I am delighted to tell you about the signs and wonders that the most high God has done for me.

4:3 “How great are his signs!

How mighty are his wonders!

His kingdom will last forever, ²⁴ 

and his authority continues from one generation to the next.”

Daniel 4:37

4:37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, for all his deeds are right and his ways are just. He is able to bring down those who live ²⁵  in pride.

[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.”

[66:3]  ⁶ tn See Deut 33:29; Ps 81:15 for other uses of the verb כָּחַשׁ (kakhash) in the sense “cower in fear.” In Ps 18:44 the verb seems to carry the nuance “be weak, powerless” (see also Ps 109:24).

[66:4]  ⁷ tn Or “bows down to.” The prefixed verbal forms in v. 4 are taken (1) as imperfects expressing what is typical. Another option (2) is to interpret them as anticipatory (“all the earth will worship you”) or (3) take them as jussives, expressing a prayer or wish (“may all the earth worship you”).

[71:17]  ⁸ tn Heb “and until now I am declaring.”

[71:18]  ⁹ tn Heb “and even unto old age and gray hair.”

[71:18]  ¹⁰ 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]  ¹¹ 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]  ¹² tn Heb “you who have done great things.”

[71:19]  ¹³ tn Or “Who is like you?”

[71:24]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “those who seek my harm.”

[71:24]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “will have become embarrassed and ashamed.” The perfect verbal forms function here as future perfects, indicating future actions which will precede chronologically the action expressed by the main verb in the preceding line.

[96:3]  ¹⁶ tn The verb “tell” is understood by ellipsis (note the preceding line).

[104:1]  ¹⁷ sn Psalm 104. The psalmist praises God as the ruler of the world who sustains all life.

[104:1]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “very great.”

[12:4]  ¹⁹ tn Or “in that day” (KJV).

[12:4]  ²⁰ tn Heb “call in his name,” i.e., “invoke his name.”

[12:4]  ²¹ tn Heb “bring to remembrance that his name is exalted.” The Lord’s “name” stands here for his character and reputation.

[4:1]  ²² sn Beginning with 4:1, the verse numbers through 4:37 in the English Bible differ from the verse numbers in the Aramaic text (BHS), with 4:1 ET = 3:31 AT, 4:2 ET = 3:32 AT, 4:3 ET = 3:33 AT, 4:4 ET = 4:1 AT, etc., through 4:37 ET = 4:34 AT. Thus Dan 3:31-33 of the Aramaic text appears as Dan 4:1-3 in the English Bible, and the corresponding verses of ch. 4 differ accordingly. In spite of the division of the Aramaic text, a good case can be made that 3:31-33 AT (= 4:1-3 ET) is actually the introduction to ch. 4.

[4:1]  ²³ tn Aram “May your peace increase!”

[4:3]  ²⁴ tn Aram “his kingdom is an everlasting kingdom.”

[4:37]  ²⁵ tn Aram “walk.”