Discovery BoxPsalms 40:7-10 
Context40:7 Then I say,
“Look! I come!
What is written in the scroll pertains to me. 1
40:8 I want to do what pleases you, 2 my God.
Your law dominates my thoughts.” 3
40:9 I have told the great assembly 4 about your justice. 5
Look! I spare no words! 6
O Lord, you know this is true.
40:10 I have not failed to tell about your justice; 7
I spoke about your reliability and deliverance;
I have not neglected to tell the great assembly about your loyal love and faithfulness. 8
1 tn Heb “in the roll of the scroll it is written concerning me.” Apparently the psalmist refers to the law of God (see v. 8), which contains the commandments God desires him to obey. If this is a distinctly royal psalm, then the psalmist/king may be referring specifically to the regulations of kingship prescribed in Deut 17:14-20. See P. C. Craigie, Psalms 1-50 (WBC), 315.
2 tn Or “your will.”
3 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.
4 sn The great assembly is also mentioned in Pss 22:25 and 35:18.
5 tn Heb “I proclaim justice in the great assembly.” Though “justice” appears without a pronoun here, the
6 tn Heb “Look! My lips I do not restrain.”
7 tn Heb “your justice I have not hidden in the midst of my heart.”
8 tn Heb “I have not hidden your loyal love and reliability.”
