I will tell everyone about your righteousness. All day long I will proclaim your saving power, though I am not skilled with words.
Parallel translations
- WEB My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don’t know its full measure.
- KJV My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
- BSB My mouth will declare Your righteousness and Your salvation all day long, though I cannot know their full measure.
- NKJV My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness And Your salvation all the day, For I do not know their limits.
- NASB My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness And of Your salvation all day long; For I do not know the art of writing.
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Quick answer
The psalmist resolves to keep telling of God's righteousness and salvation all day long, even though their fullness exceeds his ability to count or comprehend.
Overview
In this prayer of an aging believer, the psalmist commits his mouth to continual testimony about God's saving righteousness. He confesses that God's deliverances are too many to number, a humility that magnifies God rather than diminishing the praise. This God-centered, lifelong witness anticipates the gospel, where God's righteousness and salvation are fully revealed and freely given in Christ (Romans 1:16-17).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Ps 40:5Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.
- Ps 35:28My tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your praise all day long.
- Ps 71:8My mouth shall be filled with your praise, with your honor all day long.
- Ps 145:5–14Of the glorious majesty of your honor, of your wondrous works, I will meditate.
- Ps 139:17–18How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum!
- Ps 145:2Every day I will praise you. I will extol your name forever and ever.
- Ps 89:16In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted.
- Ps 71:24My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long, for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to harm me.
- Ps 40:9–10I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.
- Ps 22:22–25I will declare your name to my brothers. Among the assembly, I will praise you.
- Ps 30:12To the end that my heart may sing praise to you, and not be silent. Yahweh my God, I will give thanks to you forever!
- Ps 40:12For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.
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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.
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