71:17 O God, you have taught me since I was young,
and I am still declaring 1 your amazing deeds.
71:24 All day long my tongue will also tell about your justice,
for those who want to harm me 2 will be embarrassed and ashamed. 3
1 tn Heb “and until now I am declaring.”
2 tn Heb “those who seek my harm.”
3 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.