My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt.
Parallel translations
- WEB My tongue will also talk about your righteousness all day long, for they are disappointed, and they are confounded, who want to harm me.
- BSB My tongue will indeed proclaim Your righteousness all day long, for those who seek my harm are disgraced and confounded.
- NKJV My tongue also shall talk of Your righteousness all the day long; For they are confounded, For they are brought to shame Who seek my hurt.
- NASB My tongue also will tell of Your righteousness all day long; For they are put to shame, for they are humiliated who seek my harm.
- NLT I will tell about your righteous deeds all day long, for everyone who tried to hurt me has been shamed and humiliated.
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All day long the psalmist will speak of God's righteousness, for those who sought his harm have been put to shame.
Overview
The psalm closes with renewed confidence: God's righteousness has triumphed and the psalmist's enemies are confounded. His response is unceasing testimony to that righteousness. The vindication of the righteous and the shaming of evildoers point ahead to the final triumph of God's justice accomplished through Christ (Romans 16:20).
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Cross-references · 12
- Ps 71:13Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.
- Ps 18:37–43I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.
- 1 Cor 15:25For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet.
- Ps 35:28And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy praise all the day long.
- Ps 92:11Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.
- Prov 10:20–21The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.
- Matt 12:35A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
- Eph 4:29Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
- Ps 37:30The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
- Ps 71:8Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.
- Deut 11:19And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
- Ps 71:15My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
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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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