Psalms 40:8-9

40:8 I want to do what pleases you, 1  my God.

Your law dominates my thoughts.” 2 

40:9 I have told the great assembly 3  about your justice. 4 

Look! I spare no words! 5 

O Lord, you know this is true.

1 tn Or “your will.”

2 tn Heb “your law [is] in the midst of my inner parts.” The “inner parts” are viewed here as the seat of the psalmist’s thought life and moral decision making.

3 sn The great assembly is also mentioned in Pss 22:25 and 35:18.

4 tn Heb “I proclaim justice in the great assembly.” Though “justice” appears without a pronoun here, the Lord’s just acts are in view (see v. 10). His “justice” (צֶדֶק, tsedeq) is here the deliverance that originates in his justice; he protects and vindicates the one whose cause is just.

5 tn Heb “Look! My lips I do not restrain.”