God, you have taught me from my youth. Until now, I have declared your wondrous works.
Parallel translations
- KJV O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
- BSB O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.
- NKJV O God, You have taught me from my youth; And to this day I declare Your wondrous works.
- NASB ¶God, You have taught me from my youth, And I still declare Your wondrous deeds.
- NLT O God, you have taught me from my earliest childhood, and I constantly tell others about the wonderful things you do.
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Quick answer
From his youth God has been the psalmist's teacher, and so he has spent his life declaring God's wonderful works.
Overview
The psalmist looks back over a lifetime of being taught and sustained by God. Such early grace produces lifelong proclamation of God's deeds, modeling how faith is to be nurtured and passed on. It reflects the covenant pattern of teaching God's works to each generation (Deuteronomy 6:7), ultimately fulfilled as the church declares the wonders of God in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Ps 119:9How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.
- Ps 71:5For you are my hope, Lord Yahweh; my confidence from my youth.
- Ps 119:102I have not turned aside from your ordinances, for you have taught me.
- Deut 4:5Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it.
- 2 Sam 4:9David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said to them, “As Yahweh lives, who has redeemed my soul out of all adversity,
- Ps 26:7that I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard, and tell of all your wondrous deeds.
- 1 Sam 17:36–37Your servant struck both the lion and the bear. This uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, since he has defied the armies of the living God.”
- Ps 66:16Come, and hear, all you who fear God. I will declare what he has done for my soul.
- 1 Chr 16:4–36He appointed some of the Levites to minister before Yahweh’s ark, and to commemorate, to thank, and to praise Yahweh, the God of Israel:
- 2 Sam 22:1–51David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul,
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