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I have not covered up Your righteousness in my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and salvation; I have not concealed Your loving devotion and faithfulness from the great assembly.
Psalms 40:10 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.
  • KJV I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
  • NKJV I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation; I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth From the great assembly.
  • NASB I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart; I have spoken of Your faithfulness and Your salvation; I have not concealed Your mercy and Your truth from the great congregation.
  • NLT I have not kept the good news of your justice hidden in my heart; I have talked about your faithfulness and saving power. I have told everyone in the great assembly of your unfailing love and faithfulness.

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Quick answer

David has not hidden God's righteousness, faithfulness, and steadfast love but declared them publicly. He fully proclaims God's saving character.

Overview

He piles up covenant terms, righteousness, faithfulness, salvation, lovingkindness, and truth, to describe what he openly testifies. Nothing of God's goodness is concealed in his heart alone. This open confession models the witness owed to the God who saves.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 23

  • Rom 1:16–17I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.
  • Acts 20:20–21I did not shrink back from declaring anything that was helpful to you as I taught you publicly and from house to house,
  • 1 Tim 1:15This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the worst.
  • Rom 10:9–10that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
  • Luke 2:30–32For my eyes have seen Your salvation,
  • 1 Th 1:8For not only did the message of the Lord ring out from you to Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone out to every place, so that we have no need to say anything more.
  • Ps 34:6This poor man called out, and the LORD heard him; He saved him from all his troubles.
  • Ps 25:10All the LORD’s ways are loving and faithful to those who keep His covenant and His decrees.
  • Luke 3:6And all humanity will see God’s salvation.’”
  • Acts 13:32–33And now we proclaim to you the good news: What God promised our fathers
  • Rom 3:22–26And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,
  • Rom 15:8–9For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs,
  • Ezek 3:17–18“Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from My mouth, give them a warning from Me.
  • Mic 7:20You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.
  • Ps 89:1A Maskil of Ethan the Ezrahite. I will sing of the loving devotion of the LORD forever; with my mouth I will proclaim Your faithfulness to all generations.
  • Ezek 2:7But speak My words to them, whether they listen or refuse to listen, for they are rebellious.
  • Acts 20:26–27Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men.
  • Phil 3:9and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.
  • Isa 49:6He says: “It is not enough for You to be My Servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the protected ones of Israel. I will also make You a light for the nations, to bring My salvation to the ends of the earth.”
  • Rom 10:3Because they were ignorant of God’s righteousness and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.
  • Rev 22:17The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely.
  • John 3:16–17For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
  • John 1:17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 40:10 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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